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title: "18 U.S.C. § 3290"
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title_number: 18
title_name: "CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE"
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# 18 U.S.C. § 3290 - Fugitives from justice

## Text

No statute of limitations shall extend to any person fleeing from justice.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 829.)

## Notes

Historical and Revision NotesBased on Title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 583 (R.S. § 1045). Said section 583 was rephrased and made applicable to all statutes of limitation and is merely declaratory of the generally accepted rule of law.