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[CITE: 9USC2]

 
                          TITLE 9--ARBITRATION
 
                      CHAPTER 1--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 2. Validity, irrevocability, and enforcement of agreements 
        to arbitrate
        
    A written provision in any maritime transaction or a contract 
evidencing a transaction involving commerce to settle by arbitration a 
controversy thereafter arising out of such contract or transaction, or 
the refusal to perform the whole or any part thereof, or an agreement in 
writing to submit to arbitration an existing controversy arising out of 
such a contract, transaction, or refusal, shall be valid, irrevocable, 
and enforceable, save upon such grounds as exist at law or in equity for 
the revocation of any contract.

(July 30, 1947, ch. 392, 61 Stat. 670.)


                               Derivation

    Act Feb. 12, 1925, ch. 213, Sec. 2, 43 Stat. 883.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 202 of this title.
