Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 13 — Service Courts of Friendly Foreign Forces
§ 701. Definitions
Statutory text
As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning—
“Friendly foreign force” means any military, naval, or air force of any friendly foreign state with respect to which this chapter is operative by virtue of a Presidential declaration as provided in section 706 of this title.
“Service court” means any military, naval, or air force court, or court martial or similar tribunal of any friendly foreign force within the United States.
“United States” means the United States, its Territories, its insular possessions, the Canal Zone, and any other place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
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.
Pub. L. 78–326 § 1 · 58 Stat. 643
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 701
June 30, 1944, ch. 326, § 1, 58 Stat. 643
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 30, 1944, ch. 326, § 1, 58 Stat. 643
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Editorial Notes
References in Text
For definition of Canal Zone, referred to in subsec. (c), see section 3602(b) of this title.
Codification
The phrase “(including the Philippine Islands)” omitted from the definition of the term “United States” in subsection (b), pursuant to 1946 Proc. No. 2695, which granted independence to the Philippine Islands under the authority of section 1394 of this title, under which section Proc. No. 2695 is set out as a note.
Credits
1944–1946 · 2 acts
- 1944June 30, 1944, ch. 326, § 1, 58 Stat. 643
- 1946Proc. No. 2695, , 11 F.R. 7517, 60 Stat. 1352.
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(June 30, 1944, ch. 326, § 1, 58 Stat. 643; Proc. No. 2695, , 11 F.R. 7517, 60 Stat. 1352.)