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UNITED STATES v. BEGGERLY

Opinion of the Court

the Federal Rules still survived. This problem, along with
several others, was addressed in the 1946 amendment to
Rule 60(b). The 1946 amendment revised the Rule to read
substantially as it reads now:

“(b) Mistakes; Inadvertence; Excusable Neglect; Newly
Discovered Evidence; Fraud, Etc. On motion and upon
such terms as are just, the court may relieve a party or
a party’s legal representative from a ﬁnal judgment,
order, or proceeding for the following reasons: (1) mis-
take, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect; (2)
newly discovered evidence which by due diligence could
not have been discovered in time to move for a new trial
under Rule 59(b); (3) fraud (whether heretofore denomi-
nated intrinsic or extrinsic), misrepresentation, or other
misconduct of an adverse party; (4) the judgment is void;
(5) the judgment has been satisﬁed, released, or dis-
charged, or a prior judgment upon which it is based has
been reversed or otherwise vacated, or it is no longer
equitable that the judgment should have prospective ap-
plication; or (6) any other reason justifying relief from
the operation of the judgment. The motion shall be
made within a reasonable time, and for reasons (1), (2),
and (3) not more than one year after the judgment,
order, or proceeding was entered or taken. A motion
under this subdivision (b) does not affect the ﬁnality of
a judgment or suspend its operation. This rule does
not limit the power of a court to entertain an independ-
ent action to relieve a party from a judgment, order, or
proceeding, or to grant relief to a defendant not actually
personally notiﬁed as provided in Title 28, U. S. C.,
§ 1655, or to set aside a judgment for fraud upon the
court. Writs of coram nobis, coram vobis, audita que-
rela, and bills of review and bills in the nature of a bill
of review, are abolished, and the procedure for obtaining
any relief from a judgment shall be by motion as pre-