Piracy Articles Of Agreement
Exquemelin writes that the Buccaneers “on certain articles that are written, as a commitment or obligation that everyone must respect, and all of them or the chief put their hands on it.” Although Exquemelin did not number the articles, the following roughly reflects his description of the laws of the violation of buccaneers: pirated articles are closely related to the items of ships of the time, especially those of privateers, who similarly provided for the discipline and regulated distribution of prey (although generally much less equal than for pirated items). [4] Commercial and privateer articles can be traced back to Europe in the Middle Ages, when there was a system of “shared hands” between merchants, owners and sailors to share profits. [5] The Buccaneers operated under the articles of a ship, which determined, among other things, the behaviour of the crew. These “articles of agreement” were authority independently of each nation, and have been repeatedly called hunting party, charter party, custom of the Coast, or Jamaica discipline. In retrospect, they became pirate codes. Pirate items varied from captain to captain, and sometimes even from trip to trip, but were generally the same when it came to discipline rules, specifications from each crew member in treasures, and compensation for the wounded. Exquemelin usually writes about articles of the Caribbean Buccaneers of the late 17th century. Although he attributes these articles to any buccaneer captain in particular, Exquemelin almost certainly sailed with Henry Morgan as a physician, and therefore his report probably reflects Morgan`s article more accurately than any other private or buccaneer of the time. It is also important to distinguish the crime of piracy from armed robbery on vessels likely to occur in the inland waters and coastal seas of a coastal state. Under Part II of UNCLOS, armed robberies against ships are generally the main enforcement officers in the coastal state.
Armed robberies against ships are also a crime under the 1988 Convention on Combating Maritime Security (SSA) and, in some cases, the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime of 2000. These provisions must be read in conjunction with Article 58, paragraph 2 of the Maritime Law Convention, which specifies that the above articles and other relevant rules of international law apply to the exclusive economic zone, as long as they are not inconsistent with the definition of the exclusive economic zone of unCLOS. The statutes were born of Charter Party, a legal document used by Buccaneers at the end of the century. These charters, by which jamaican courts have ended disputes, served three functions: the explanation of the terms of service, the provision of fixed compensation in the event of death or violation, and the distribution of looted property among the crews. Eventually, the legality of these documents was reduced to the point where they became secret charters under which teams of pirates sailed. One of the first descriptions of such a code was published in 1678 in The Buccaneers of America, a report by Alexander Oliver Exquemelin on his years as a pirate surgeon. Only a few of these documents have been kept to date. Perhaps the most cited and comprehensive articles are those under which Bartholomew Roberts and his crew sailed. These prohibited games of chance, banned the presence of women, set penalties, explained dispute resolution procedures, planned for the wounded in combat, plotted the sharing of the loot and assured the musicians that they would have at least one day of rest.
