Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 21 — Civil Rights
§ 1990. Marshal to obey precepts; refusing to receive or execute process
Statutory text
Every marshal and deputy marshal shall obey and execute all warrants or other process, when directed to him, issued under the provisions of section 1989 of this title. Every marshal and deputy marshal who refuses to receive any warrant or other process when tendered to him, issued in pursuance of the provisions of this section, or refuses or neglects to use all proper means diligently to execute the same, shall be liable to a fine in the sum of $1,000, for the benefit of the party aggrieved thereby.
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.
(R.S. §§ 1985, 5517.)
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 1990
(R.S. §§ 1985, 5517.)
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
(R.S. §§ 1985, 5517.)
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
R.S. § 1985 derived from acts Apr. 9, 1866, ch. 31, § 5, 14 Stat. 28; May 31, 1870, ch. 114, § 10, 16 Stat. 142.
R.S. § 5517 derived from act May 31, 1870, ch. 114, § 10, 16 Stat. 142.
Section was formerly classified to section 51 of Title 8, Aliens and Nationality.
Credits
(R.S. §§ 1985, 5517.)