Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 4 — China Trade
§ 146a. Jurisdiction of suits by or against China Trade Act corporation
Statutory text
The Federal district courts shall have exclusive original jurisdiction of all suits to which a China Trade Act corporation, or a stockholder, director, or officer thereof in his capacity as such, is a party. Suit against the corporation may be brought in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia or in the Federal district court for any district in which the corporation has an agent and is engaged in doing business.
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.
China Trade Act, 1922
Pub. L. 67–346 § 20(a) · 42 Stat. 849
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 146a
Sept. 19, 1922, ch. 346, § 20(a), formerly § 20, 42 Stat. 855
Source evidence
Code source credit
Sept. 19, 1922, ch. 346, § 20(a), formerly § 20, 42 Stat. 855Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 20. jurisdiction of suits against corporation. That the Federal district courts shall have exclusive Exclusive jurisdiction of Federal courts. Vol. 34, p. 814. original jurisdiction of all suits (except as provided by the Act entitled “An Act creating a United States Court for China and proscribing the jurisdiction thereof,” approved June 30, 1906, as amended) to which a China Trade Act corporation, or a stockholder, director, or officer thereof in his capacity as such, is a party. Suit Venue of suits. against the corporation may be brought in the United States Court for China, or in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, or in the Federal district court for any district in which the corporation has an agent and is engaged in doing business.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section comprises subsec. (a) of section 20 of act , as amended by act . Subsec. (b) of section 20 is classified to section 160 of this title.
In the first sentence, the words “(except as provided by the Act entitled ‘An Act creating a United States Court for China and prescribing the jurisdiction thereof,’ approved , as amended)” have been omitted because that Act (formerly classified to sections 191 to 197, 199, 200, and 202 of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse) was repealed by act June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 39, 62 Stat. 992, eff. .
The provision in the second sentence that suits against the China Trade Act corporation might also be brought in the United States Court for China was omitted as that court is no longer in operation. By the treaty of , between the United States and China, the United States relinquished extraterritorial rights in China. See Codification note set out under section 142 of this title.
Section was formerly classified to section 53 of Title 28 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure, by act June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 1, 62 Stat. 869.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
Act , eff. , as amended by act , substituted “United States District Court for the District of Columbia” for “district court of the United States for the District of Columbia”.
Act , changed name of “Supreme Court of the District of Columbia” to “district court of the United States for the District of Columbia”.
Credits
1922–1949 · 6 acts
- 1922Sept. 19, 1922, ch. 346, § 20(a), formerly § 20, 42 Stat. 855
- 1925renumbered § 20(a), Feb. 26, 1925, ch. 345, § 10, 43 Stat. 996
- 1936June 25, 1936, ch. 804, 49 Stat. 1921
- 1943Treaty of , 57 Stat. 767
- 1948June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 32(a), 62 Stat. 991
- 1949May 24, 1949, ch. 139, § 127, 63 Stat. 107.
Show as published
(Sept. 19, 1922, ch. 346, § 20(a), formerly § 20, 42 Stat. 855; renumbered § 20(a), Feb. 26, 1925, ch. 345, § 10, 43 Stat. 996; June 25, 1936, ch. 804, 49 Stat. 1921; Treaty of , 57 Stat. 767; June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 32(a), 62 Stat. 991; May 24, 1949, ch. 139, § 127, 63 Stat. 107.)