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[CITE: 1USC110]

 
                       TITLE 1--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
  CHAPTER 2--ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS; FORMALITIES OF ENACTMENT; REPEALS; 
                         SEALING OF INSTRUMENTS
 
Sec. 110. Saving clause of Revised Statutes

    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.

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