Title 1 — General Provisions
Chapter 2 — Acts and Resolutions; Formalities of Enactment; Repeals; Sealing of Instruments
§ 110. Saving clause of Revised Statutes
Statutory text
All acts of limitation, whether applicable to civil causes and proceedings, or to the prosecution of offenses, or for the recovery of penalties or forfeitures, embraced in the Revised Statutes and covered by the repeal contained therein, shall not be affected thereby, but all suits, proceedings, or prosecutions, whether civil or criminal, for causes arising, or acts done or committed prior to said repeal, may be commenced and prosecuted within the same time as if said repeal had not been made.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
1 U. S. C., § —
Pub. L. 80–388 · 61 Stat. 633
Enacted · 1 U.S.C. § 110
(July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 635.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 635.)
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Credits
(July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 635.)