---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 1660"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "1660"
heading: "Receipt of pirate property"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/1660"
units:
  - "Part I — Crimes"
  - "Chapter 81 — Piracy and Privateering"
---

# §1660. Receipt of pirate property


[Whoever](/usc/18/921.md?p=a-1), 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](/usc/18/229F.md?p=9), knowing the same to have been feloniously taken, shall be imprisoned not more than ten years.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 775.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 552 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 334, 35 Stat. 1152).

Provision relating to concealment of pirate and words “is an accessory after the fact to such robbery or piracy” were omitted in view of definitive section 3 of this title.