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Volume 45

Public Law 70–440

To amend section 2 of an Act entitled “An Act in reference to writs of error,” approved January 31, 1928, Public, Numbered 10, Seventieth Congress.

Approved April 26, 1928

Statutory text

An Act

To amend section 2 of an Act entitled “An Act in reference to writs of error,” approved January 31, 1928, Public, Numbered 10, Seventieth Congress.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That section 2 of

United States courts.

Procedure in appeal cases.

Ante, p. 54, amended.

an Act entitled “An Act in reference to writs of error,” approved January 31, 1928, Public, Numbered 10, Seventieth Congress, be, and it is hereby, amended to read as follows:

Statutes regulating right to writ of error, etc., made applicable to appeal substituted therefor.

“Sec. 2.

The statutes regulating the right to a writ of error, defining the relief which may be had thereon, and prescribing the mode of exercising that right and of invoking such relief, including the provisions relating to costs, supersedeas, and mandate, shall be applicable to the appeal which the preceding section substitutes for a writ of error.”

Approved, April 26, 1928.

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