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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Chapter 21 — Settlement of International Claims

§ 1642e. Claims based on ownership interest in corporations or other legal entities

Statutory text

(a)

Nationals of United States

A claim under section 1642c of this title, based upon an ownership interest in any corporation, association, or other entity which is a national of the United States shall be denied.

(b)

Direct ownership

A claim under section 1642c of this title, based upon a direct ownership interest in a corporation, association, or other entity for loss by reason of the nationalization or other taking of such corporation, association, or other entity, or the property thereof, shall be allowed, subject to other provisions of this subchapter, if such corporation, association, or other entity on the date of the nationalization or other taking was not a national of the United States, without regard to the per centum of ownership vested in the claimant in any such claim.

(c)

Indirect ownership

A claim under section 1642c of this title, based upon an indirect ownership interest in a corporation, association, or other entity for loss by reason of the nationalization or other taking of such corporation, association, or other entity, or the property thereof, shall be allowed, subject to other provisions of this subchapter, only if at least 25 per centum of the entire ownership interest thereof at the time of such nationalization or other taking was vested in nationals of the United States.

(d)

Computation of award

Any award on a claim under subsection (b) or (c) of this section shall be calculated on the basis of the total loss suffered by such corporation, association, or other entity, and shall bear the same proportion to such loss as the ownership interest of the claimant bears to the entire ownership interest thereof.

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. 85–604 § 1 · 72 Stat. 527

    Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 1642e

    (Mar. 10, 1950, ch. 54, title IV, § 406, as added Pub. L. 85–604, § 1, Aug. 8, 1958, 72 Stat. 529.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Mar. 10, 1950, ch. 54, title IV, § 406, as added Pub. L. 85–604, § 1, Aug. 8, 1958, 72 Stat. 529.)

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Credits

(Mar. 10, 1950, ch. 54, title IV, § 406, as added Pub. L. 85–604, § 1, , 72 Stat. 529.)

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