Chapter 146. Providing for service of process in causes removed from a State or other court to a United States court
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CHAP. 146.— An Act Providing for service of process in causes removed from a State or other court to a United States court. April 16, 1920. [[H. R. 10207](/us/bill/66/hr/10207).] [[Public, No. 180](/us/pl/66/180).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* United States courts.Completion of service of process in cases removed to, from State courts. That hereafter, in all cases removed from any State court to any United States court for trial in which any one or more of the defendants has not been served with process or in which the same has not been perfected prior to such removal, or in which the process served upon the defendant or defendants, or any of them, proves to be defective, such process may be completed by the United States court through its officers, or new process as to defendants upon whom process has not been completed may be issued out of such United States court, or service may be perfected in such court in the same manner as in cases which are originally *Proviso*.Right to remand to State court not impaired.filed in such United States court: *Provided*, Nothing in this Act shall be construed to deprive any defendant upon whom process is so served after removal, of his right to move to remand the cause to the State court, the same as if process had been served upon him prior to such removal.
Approved, April 16, 1920.