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[CITE: 28USC2246]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                     PART VI--PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS
 
                       CHAPTER 153--HABEAS CORPUS
 
Sec. 2246. Evidence; depositions; affidavits

    On application for a writ of habeas corpus, evidence may be taken 
orally or by deposition, or, in the discretion of the judge, by 
affidavit. If affidavits are admitted any party shall have the right to 
propound written interrogatories to the affiants, or to file answering 
affidavits.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 966.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    This section is derived from H.R. 4232 introduced in the first 
session of the Seventy-ninth Congress by Chairman Sumners of the House 
Committee on the Judiciary. It clarifies existing practice without 
substantial change.
