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[CITE: 28USC2111]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                            PART V--PROCEDURE
 
              CHAPTER 133--REVIEW--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 2111. Harmless error

    On the hearing of any appeal or writ of certiorari in any case, the 
court shall give judgment after an examination of the record without 
regard to errors or defects which do not affect the substantial rights 
of the parties.

(Added May 24, 1949, ch. 139, Sec. 110, 63 Stat. 105.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

                            1949 Act

    Incorporates in title 28, U.S.C., as section 2111 thereof, the 
harmless error provisions of section 269 of the Judicial Code (now 
repealed), which applied to all courts of the United States and to all 
cases therein and therefore was superseded only in part by the Federal 
Procedural Rules, which apply only to the United States district courts.
