Title 28 — Judiciary and Judicial Procedure
Part I · Chapter 1 — Supreme Court
§ 6. Records of former court of appeals
Statutory text
The records and proceedings of the court of appeals, appointed previous to the adoption of the Constitution, shall be kept until deposited with the National Archives of the United States in the office of the clerk of the Supreme Court, who shall furnish copies thereof to any person requiring and paying for them, in the manner provided by law for giving copies of the records and proceedings of the Supreme Court. Such copies shall have the same faith and credit as proceedings of the Supreme Court.
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.
Title 28, United States Code, section —
Pub. L. 80–646 · 62 Stat. 869
Enacted · 28 U.S.C. § 6
June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 870
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 870
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Notes
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 329 (Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 231, § 222, 36 Stat. 1153).
In a letter dated , the clerk of the Supreme Court advised that many of the early records mentioned in this section were destroyed by fire. Others are on file in the Clerk’s office.
Minor changes in phraseology were made.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1951—Act , inserted “until deposited with the National Archives of the United States” in first sentence.
Credits
1948–1951 · 2 acts
- 1948June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 870
- 1951Oct. 25, 1951, ch. 562, § 4(7), 65 Stat. 640.
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(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 870; Oct. 25, 1951, ch. 562, § 4(7), 65 Stat. 640.)