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title: "18 U.S.C. § 3439"
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# 18 U.S.C. § 3439 - Demurrers and special pleas in bar or abatement abolished; relief on motion—(Rule)

## Text

See Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Motion to dismiss or for appropriate relief substituted for demurrer or dilatory plea or motion to quash, Rule 12.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 832.)