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Title 9 — Arbitration

Chapter 1 — General Provisions

§ 3. Stay of proceedings where issue therein referable to arbitration

Statutory text

If any suit or proceeding be brought in any of the courts of the United States upon any issue referable to arbitration under an agreement in writing for such arbitration, the court in which such suit is pending, upon being satisfied that the issue involved in such suit or proceeding is referable to arbitration under such an agreement, shall on application of one of the parties stay the trial of the action until such arbitration has been had in accordance with the terms of the agreement, providing the applicant for the stay is not in default in proceeding with such arbitration.

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. 9 U. S. C., § —

    Pub. L. 80–392 · 61 Stat. 669

    Enacted · 9 U.S.C. § 3

    (July 30, 1947, ch. 392, 61 Stat. 670.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (July 30, 1947, ch. 392, 61 Stat. 670.)

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Notes

Derivation

Act Feb. 12, 1925, ch. 213, § 3, 43 Stat. 883.

Credits

(July 30, 1947, ch. 392, 61 Stat. 670.)

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