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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 8 — Summary Trials for Certain Offenses Against Navigation Laws

§ 394. Challenge to jurors

Statutory text

At the trial in summary cases, if by jury, the United States and the accused shall each be entitled to three peremptory challenges. Challenges for cause, in such cases, shall be tried by the court without the aid of triers.

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. (R.S. § 4303.)

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 394

    (R.S. § 4303.)

    Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (R.S. § 4303.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved

Editorial Notes

Codification

R.S. § 4303 derived from act June 11, 1864, ch. 121, § 7, 13 Stat. 125.

Credits

(R.S. § 4303.)

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