1994 US Code
Title 50 - WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
TITLE 50 - APPENDIX-WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
SOLDIERS’ AND SAILORS’ CIVIL RELIEF ACT OF 1918
SOLDIERS’ AND SAILORS’ CIVIL RELIEF ACT OF 1940
Sec. 510 - Purpose; suspension of enforcement of civil liabilities
View Metadata| Publication Title | United States Code, 1994 Edition, Title 50 - WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE |
| Category | Bills and Statutes |
| Collection | United States Code |
| SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
| Contained Within | Title 50 - WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE TITLE 50 - APPENDIX-WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE SOLDIERS’ AND SAILORS’ CIVIL RELIEF ACT OF 1940 ACT OCT. 17, 1940, CH. 888, 54 STAT. 1178 ARTICLE I - GENERAL PROVISIONS Sec. 510 - Purpose; suspension of enforcement of civil liabilities |
| Contains | section 510 |
| Date | 1994 |
| Laws in Effect as of Date | January 4, 1995 |
| Positive Law | No |
| Disposition | standard |
| Source Credit | Oct. 17, 1940, ch. 888, art. I, §100, 54 Stat. 1179. |
| Statutes at Large References | 54 Stat. 1178, 1179 |
§510. Purpose; suspension of enforcement of civil liabilities
In order to provide for, strengthen, and expedite the national defense under the emergent conditions which are threatening the peace and security of the United States and to enable the United States the more successfully to fulfill the requirements of the national defense, provision is made to suspend enforcement of civil liabilities, in certain cases, of persons in the military service of the United States in order to enable such persons to devote their entire energy to the defense needs of the Nation, and to this end the following provisions are made for the temporary suspension of legal proceedings and transactions which may prejudice the civil rights of persons in such service during the period herein specified over which this Act [sections 501 to 593 of this Appendix] remains in force.
(Oct. 17, 1940, ch. 888, art. I, §100, 54 Stat. 1179.)
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