Whoever, without lawful authority, receives or takes into custody any vessel, goods, or other property, feloniously taken by any robber or pirate against the laws of the United States, knowing the same to have been feloniously taken, shall be imprisoned not more than ten years.
June 25, 1948, ch. 645 62 Stat. 775 (, .)
Historical and Revision Notes
Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 334 35 Stat. 1152 Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 552 (, ).
section 3 of this titleProvision relating to concealment of pirate and words “is an accessory after the fact to such robbery or piracy” were omitted in view of definitive .