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In the show 'Black Sails', the pirates have laws they quote every now and then when there are disputes. Did the pirates of the Golden Age of piracy really have some sort of shared code of rules for dealing with crime etc. among the crews?

by /u/mythoplokos in /r/AskHistorians

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