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# 15 U.S.C. § 1223 - Limitations

## Text

Any action brought pursuant to this chapter shall be forever barred unless commenced within three years after the cause of action shall have accrued.

(Aug. 8, 1956, ch. 1038, § 3, 70 Stat. 1125.)