§ 508. Persons making seizures pleading general issue and proving special matter

Statutory text

If any officer, or other person, executing or aiding or assisting in the seizure of goods, under any Act providing for or regulating the collection of duties on imports or tonnage, is sued for anything done in virtue of the powers given thereby, or by virtue of a warrant granted by any judge, or justice, pursuant to law, he may plead the general issue and give such Act and the special matter in evidence.

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.

undated
(R.S. § 3073.)
Enacted · 19 U.S.C. § 508
(R.S. § 3073.)
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
(R.S. § 3073.)

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Editorial Notes

Codification

R.S. § 3073 derived from act Mar. 2, 1799, ch. 22, § 71, 1 Stat. 678.

Credits

(R.S. § 3073.)