PIRACY. DEPREDATIONS ON PROPERTY, PILLAGE, OR ROBBERY CONDUTED ON THE HIGH SEAS IN DEFIANCE OF ALL CONSTITUTED AUTHORITY OR LAW, GENERALLY, IT ALSO INCLUDES DEPREDATIONS ONLAND PROPERTY WHERE BASE OF SUCH FELONIOUS ACTS OR OPERATIONS IS ON BOARD SHIP, WHETHER ON THE HIGH SEAS OR ELSEWHERE.

PIRATE. ONE WHO PRACTICES PIRACY; A VESSEL ARMED FOR THE PURPOSE OF PURSUING PIRATICAL ADVENTURES; A CORSAIR; A SEA-ROVER. A SWINDLER WHO PREYS UPON SAILORS ASHORE; ALSO LAND SHARK.