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TITLE 11 - BANKRUPTCY
CHAPTER 5 - CREDITORS, THE DEBTOR, AND THE ESTATE
    SUBCHAPTER III - THE ESTATE

-HEAD-
    Sec. 558. Defenses of the estate

-STATUTE-
      The estate shall have the benefit of any defense available to the
    debtor as against any entity other than the estate, including
    statutes of limitation, statutes of frauds, usury, and other
    personal defenses. A waiver of any such defense by the debtor after
    the commencement of the case does not bind the estate.

-SOURCE-
    (Added Pub. L. 98-353, title III, Sec. 470(a), July 10, 1984, 98
    Stat. 380.)


                              EFFECTIVE DATE                          
      Section effective with respect to cases filed 90 days after July
    10, 1984, see section 552(a) of Pub. L. 98-353, set out as an
    Effective Date of 1984 Amendment note under section 101 of this
    title.

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