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Code · U.S. Code · Title 28 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE · CHAPTER 97— JURISDICTIONAL IMMUNITIES OF FOREIGN STATES · § 1609

§ 1609. Immunity from attachment and execution of property of a foreign state

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Subject to existing international agreements to which the United States is a party at the time of enactment of this Act the property in the United States of a foreign state shall be immune from attachment 1 arrest 1 and execution except as provided in sections 1610 and 1611 of this chapter.
(Added Pub. L. 94–583, § 4(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2895.)
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