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# 8 U.S.C. § 1488 - Nationality lost solely from performance of acts or fulfillment of conditions

## Text

The loss of nationality under this part shall result solely from the performance by a national of the acts or fulfillment of the conditions specified in this part.

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title III, ch. 3, § 356, 66 Stat. 272.)