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1 U.S.C. § 110 — Saving clause of Revised Statutes

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The old Revised Statutes repealed many earlier laws. This section says that repeal does not shorten any deadline for filing a lawsuit or criminal case. Cases about things that happened before the repeal can still be filed within their original time limit.

This section is a "saving clause" — it protects certain rules from being wiped out when the Revised Statutes repealed older laws. "Acts of limitation" are laws that set deadlines for filing a case — civil lawsuits, criminal prosecutions, or actions to recover penalties or forfeitures. Some of these deadline laws were part of the older laws that the Revised Statutes repealed. This section says that repeal does not affect those deadline laws. The deadlines still apply, exactly as if the repeal had never happened. As a result, any lawsuit, proceeding, or prosecution — civil or criminal — about something that happened, or an act done or committed, before the repeal can still be started and carried through within the same time limit that applied before the repeal.
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All acts of limitation, whether applicable to civil causes and proceedings, or to the prosecution of offenses, or for the recovery of penalties or forfeitures, embraced in the Revised Statutes and covered by the repeal contained therein, shall not be affected thereby, but all suits, proceedings, or prosecutions, whether civil or criminal, for causes arising, or acts done or committed prior to said repeal, may be commenced and prosecuted within the same time as if said repeal had not been made.

Source credit: (July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 635.)

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  • 1947Enacted · Act of July 30, 1947, ch. 388 · 61 Stat. 635

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 388 on 1947-07-30.

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