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# 25 U.S.C. § 1303 - Habeas corpus

## Text

The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall be available to any person, in a court of the United States, to test the legality of his detention by order of an Indian tribe.

(Pub. L. 90–284, title II, § 203, Apr. 11, 1968, 82 Stat. 78.)