Article 146 Federal Criminal Code

The following shall be considered pirates:

I.- Those who, belonging to the crew of a Mexican merchant vessel, of another nation, or without nationality, seize by armed hand any vessel, or commit depredations on it, or do violence to the persons who are on board;

II.- Those who, being on board a vessel, take possession of it and voluntarily deliver it to a pirate, and

III.- Repealed.