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Title 25 — Indians

Chapter 15 — Constitutional Rights of Indians

§ 1303. Habeas corpus

Statutory text

The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall be available to any person, in a court of the United States, to test the legality of his detention by order of an Indian tribe.

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. Pub. L. 90–284 title II § 203 · 82 Stat. 73

    Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 1303

    (Pub. L. 90–284, title II, § 203, Apr. 11, 1968, 82 Stat. 78.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 90–284, title II, § 203, Apr. 11, 1968, 82 Stat. 78.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 203. habeas corpus The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall be available to any person, in a court of the United States, to test the legality of his detention by order of an Indian tribe.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 90–284, title II, § 203, , 82 Stat. 78.)

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