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[CITE: 9USC3]

 
                          TITLE 9--ARBITRATION
 
                      CHAPTER 1--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 3. Stay of proceedings where issue therein referable to 
        arbitration
        
    If any suit or proceeding be brought in any of the courts of the 
United States upon any issue referable to arbitration under an agreement 
in writing for such arbitration, the court in which such suit is 
pending, upon being satisfied that the issue involved in such suit or 
proceeding is referable to arbitration under such an agreement, shall on 
application of one of the parties stay the trial of the action until 
such arbitration has been had in accordance with the terms of the 
agreement, providing the applicant for the stay is not in default in 
proceeding with such arbitration.

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


                               Derivation

    Act Feb. 12, 1925, ch. 213, Sec. 3, 43 Stat. 883.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 15 of this title.
