Episode # 116 Argh, Matey!

War. "a struggle or competition between opposing forces or for a particular end"

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/war

Piracy. "the unauthorized use of another's production, invention, or conception especially in infringement of a copyright"

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/piracy

High Seas. "the open part of a sea or ocean especially outside territorial waters"

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/high%20sea

Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and valuable goods, or taking hostages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy

Is the Crime of Piracy Obsolete?

There is encountered, at the outset, one characteristic feature of the crime of piracy which makes it uniquely difficult as well as uniquely interesting. It has long been regarded as an international crime as well as a crime by municipal law. As an international crime it is within the jurisdiction of all maritime states wheresoever or by whomsoever committed. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/346441578.pdf

Article #42 Slavery, complicating and confounding the ideas of property, (that is of a thing,) and of personality, (that is of humanity,) exists according to municipal or local law only. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/lieber.asp#sec2

18 USC Ch. 81: PIRACY AND PRIVATEERING

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title18/part1/chapter81&edition=prelim

Cruden vs Neale (1796) - "every man is independent of all laws EXCEPT those prescribed by nature."

https://www.informerarchives.com/sources/cruden-v-neale-2-nc-338--1796.pdf

Estates of the Realm - a three-estate system which was made up of a First Estate of clergy, a Second Estate of titled nobles, and a Third Estate of all other subjects (both peasants and bourgeoisie). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estates_of_the_realm

Delivery. "the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes"

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/delivery

22 U.S. Code § 288b - Baggage and effects of officers and employees exempted from customs duties and internal revenue taxes - Note: Baggage (fetal afterbirth) and Effects (maternal afterbirth) https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/22/288b

Status Quo Ante Bellum - 'the situation as it existed before the war'. The term was originally used in treaties to refer to the withdrawal of enemy troops and the restoration of prewar leadership. When used as such, it means that no side gains or loses any territorial, economic, or political rights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_quo_ante_bellum

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