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[CITE: 28USC1696]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                            PART V--PROCEDURE
 
                          CHAPTER 113--PROCESS
 
Sec. 1696. Service in foreign and international litigation

    (a) The district court of the district in which a person resides or 
is found may order service upon him of any document issued in connection 
with a proceeding in a foreign or international tribunal. The order may 
be made pursuant to a letter rogatory issued, or request made, by a 
foreign or international tribunal or upon application of any interested 
person and shall direct the manner of service. Service pursuant to this 
subsection does not, of itself, require the recognition or enforcement 
in the United States of a judgment, decree, or order rendered by a 
foreign or international tribunal.
    (b) This section does not preclude service of such a document 
without an order of court.

(Added Pub. L. 88-619, Sec. 4(a), Oct. 3, 1964, 78 Stat. 995.)
