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- From: thompson@atlas.socsci.umn.edu (T. Scott Thompson)
- Subject: Re: Coast Guard Boating Tax, NOT!
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 21:31:17 GMT
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- micheal@sdf.lonestar.org (T. Micheal Young) writes:
-
- > If your vessel flys a flag other than the US
- >flag, then the CG does not have the right to search it outside of US territorial
- >waters.
-
- This is not entirely true. There is a doctrine of international law
- known as "hot pursuit" that entitles the C.G. to stop and board any
- vessel in international waters provided they begin their pursuit while
- the vessel is still in territorial waters.
-
- (This learned from an undergraduate level course in international law.
- Perhaps someone else knows about the technical details.)
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