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Title 12 — Banks and Banking

Chapter 2 — National Banks

§ 31. Rights and liabilities as affected by change of name

Statutory text

All debts, liabilities, rights, provisions, and powers of the association under its old name shall devolve upon and inure to the association under its new name.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 49–73 § 3 · 24 Stat. 18

    Enacted · 12 U.S.C. § 31

    (May 1, 1886, ch. 73, § 3, 24 Stat. 19.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (May 1, 1886, ch. 73, § 3, 24 Stat. 19.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 3. That all debts, liabilities, rights, provisions, and powers of Liabilities, &c., to devolve on new association. the association under its old name shall devolve upon and inure to the association under its new name.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(May 1, 1886, ch. 73, § 3, 24 Stat. 19.)

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