9 USC 2 - Sec. 2. Validity, irrevocability, and enforcement of agreements to arbitrate

9 USC - U.S. Code - Title 9: Arbitration (January 2004)


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A written provision in any maritime transaction or a contract evidencing a transaction involving commerce to settle by arbitration a controversy thereafter arising out of such contract or transaction, or the refusal to perform the whole or any part thereof, or an agreement in writing to submit to arbitration an existing controversy arising out of such a contract, transaction, or refusal, shall be valid, irrevocable, and enforceable, save upon such grounds as exist at law or in equity for the revocation of any contract.


Derivation

Act Feb. 12, 1925, ch. 213, Sec. 2, 43 Stat. 883.

Section Referred To In Other Sections

This section is referred to in section 202 of this title; title 25 section 415.