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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 45 STAT. · January 31, 1928 · Chapter 14

Chapter 14. In reference to writs of error

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Chap. 14: In reference to writs of error. Chapter 14 45 Stat. 54 1928-01-31 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 1 public 54 Chapter 14.— An Act In reference to writs of error. January 31, 1928.[[S. 1801](/us/bill/70/s/1801).][[Public, No. 10](/us/pl/70/10).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * United States courts.Writs of error abolished, and appeals substituted therefor.
That the writ of error in cases, civil and criminal, is abolished. All relief which heretofore could be obtained by writ of error shall hereafter be obtainable by appeal. Sec. 2. That in all cases where an appeal may be taken as of rightProcedure in appeal cases.*Post, * p. 466. it shall be taken by serving upon the adverse party or his attorney of record, and by filing in the office of the clerk with whom the order appealed from is entered, a written notice to the effect that the appellant appeals from the judgment or order or from a specified part thereof.
No petition of appeal or allowance of an appeal shall be required: *Provided, however, *That the review of judgments of*Proviso.*Review of judgments of State courts as by writ of error. State courts of last resort shall be petitioned for and allowed in the same form as now provided by law for writs of error to such courts. Approved, January 31, 1928.
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