The Book of Laws of Attland prohibits any foreign trespassing through "waters visible from the island, or landing on the Attland island, or any of its islands visible from any island visible from Attland."
In 1299, King Vufeyr, the 13th king of Attland (1242-approx. 1339) effectively closed the country to any foreigners, also by abolishing slavery and import and trade in slaves, appended the above law to the book of Laws, and commanded that any foreign ship or a person coming to the island with intentions other than to seek help in their sailing and sustenance, to be executed.
The implementation of the law means that hundreds of ships were unconditionally warned and most often sank or burned, from 1299 to 1771. The pirate bases on Marlborough archipelago that is now the city of the same name, were a loophole wherein the pirates paid rent for the use of the islands as an "exchange of bartered cargo and storehouses of fresh water."
The law was implemented in 1812 when the Britain's Caribbean Fleet of more than 30 ships was burned and sank about 100 miles northeast of Attland while sailing to reaffirm the Britain's right to have its warships replenish and refit in the Marlborough port, which by then was long rid of pirates, owing to the efforts of a "27th King of Attland."
As late as 1920s there have been reports of ships missing or adrift in the area, while the Attland Navy never reported to any media organization each incident of enforcing the Foreign Trespass Law.
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