Pirate - Law Dictionary Search Results
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pirate : a person who commits piracy vb pi·rat·ed pi·rat·ing vt : to take or appropriate by piracy ;esp : to copy, distribute, or use without authorization esp. in infringement of copyright [the pirated software] [pirating cable signals] vi : to commit piracy compare bootleg ...
Piratic
Piratical...
Enemy
Enemy, means:(i) any person or country committing external aggression against India,(ii) any person belonging to a country committing such aggression,(iii) such other country as may be declared by the Central government to be assisting the country committing such aggression,(iv) any person belonging to such other country.[Personal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1962, s. 2(3),One who opposes or inflicts injury on another;an antagonist, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 548.Includes all armed mutineers, armed rebels, armed rioters, pirates and any person in arms against whom it is the duty of any person subject to this Act to take action. [Border Security Force Act, 1968 (47 of 1968), s. 2 (1) (j)]It includes all armed mutineers, armed rebels, armed rioters, pirates and any person in arms against whom it is the duty of any person subject to military law to act. [Army Act, 1950 (46 of 1950), s. 3 (x)]It includes all armed mutineers, armed rebels, armed rioters, pirates and any pe...
Malandrinus
Malandrinus, a thief or pirate, Walsing. 338.Malandrinus, A thief, a pirate, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 967....
Rover
One who practices robbery on the seas a pirate...
Sciethman
Sciethman, a pirate or thief....
Piracy
Piracy [fr. pirata, Lat.], the commission of those acts of robbery and violence upon the sea, which if committed upon land wold amount to felony. Pirates hold no commission or delegated authority from any sovereign or State, empowering them to attack others. They can, therefore, be only regarded in the light of robbers. They are, as Cicero has truly stated, the common enemies of all (communes hostes omnium); and the law of nations gives to every one the right to pursue and exterminate them without any previous declaration of war (see Piracy Jure Gentium, 1934, AC 586, where a frustrated attempt was held to be piracy by that law); but it is not allowed to kill them without trial, except in battle. Those who surrender or are taken prisoners must be brought before the proper magistrates, and dealt with according to law. By the ancient Common Law of England, piracy, if committed by a subject, was held to be a species of treason, being contrary to his natural allegiance; if by an alien, to ...
Sea thief
A pirate...
Sea rover
One that cruises or roves the sea for plunder a sea robber a pirate also a piratical vessel...
Sea robber
A pirate a sea rover...
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