<section xmlns="http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" style="-uslm-lc:I80" id="id14067464-f67d-11e5-bd8c-a577a4d23433" identifier="/us/usc/t28/s1916"><num value="1916">§ 1916.</num><heading> Seamen’s suits</heading><content>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I11" class="indent0">In all courts of the United States, seamen may institute and prosecute suits and appeals in their own names and for their own benefit for wages or salvage or the enforcement of laws enacted for their health or safety without prepaying fees or costs or furnishing security therefor.</p>
</content><sourceCredit id="id14067465-f67d-11e5-bd8c-a577a4d23433">(<ref href="/us/act/1948-06-25/ch646">June 25, 1948, ch. 646</ref>, <ref href="/us/stat/62/955">62 Stat. 955</ref>.)</sourceCredit>
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<note style="-uslm-lc:I74" topic="historicalAndRevision" id="id14067467-f67d-11e5-bd8c-a577a4d23433"><heading class="centered smallCaps">Historical and Revision Notes</heading><p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 837 (<ref href="/us/act/1917-06-12/ch27">June 12, 1917, ch. 27</ref>, § 1, <ref href="/us/stat/40/157">40 Stat. 157</ref>; <ref href="/us/act/1918-07-01/ch113">July 1, 1918, ch. 113</ref>, § 1, <ref href="/us/stat/40/683">40 Stat. 683</ref>).</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Changes in phraseology were made.</p>
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