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[CITE: 28USC1448]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                     PART IV--JURISDICTION AND VENUE
 
     CHAPTER 89--DISTRICT COURTS; REMOVAL OF CASES FROM STATE COURTS
 
Sec. 1448. Process after removal

    In all cases removed from any State court to any district court of 
the United States in which any one or more of the defendants has not 
been served with process or in which the service has not been perfected 
prior to removal, or in which process served proves to be defective, 
such process or service may be completed or new process issued in the 
same manner as in cases originally filed in such district court.
    This section shall not deprive any defendant upon whom process is 
served after removal of his right to move to remand the case.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 940.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 83 (Apr. 16, 1920, ch. 
146, 41 Stat. 554).
    Words ``district court of the United States'' were substituted for 
``United States Court,'' because only the district courts now possess 
jurisdiction over removed civil and criminal cases.
    Changes were made in phraseology.
