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[CITE: 10USC856]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
              CHAPTER 47--UNIFORM CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE
 
                       SUBCHAPTER VIII--SENTENCES
 
Sec. 856. Art. 56. Maximum limits

    The punishment which a court-martial may direct for an offense may 
not exceed such limits as the President may prescribe for that offense.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 56.)

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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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856...................................  50:637.                              Ma
y 5, 1950, ch. 169, Sec.  1 (Art.
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6), 64 Stat. 126.
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    The word ``may'' is substituted for the word ``shall''.
