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Title 28 — Judiciary and Judicial Procedure

Part V · Chapter 111 — General Provisions

§ 1656. Creation of new district or division or transfer of territory; lien enforcement

Statutory text

The creation of a new district or division or the transfer of any territory to another district or division shall not affect or divest any lien theretofore acquired in a district court upon property within such district, division or territory.

To enforce such lien, the clerk of the court in which the same is acquired, upon the request and at the cost of the party desiring the same, shall make a certified copy of the record thereof, which, when filed in the proper court of the district or division in which such property is situated after such creation or transfer shall be evidence in all courts and places equally with the original thereof; and, thereafter like proceedings shall be had thereon, and with the same effect, as though the case or proceeding had been originally instituted in such court.

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. Title 28, United States Code, section —

    Pub. L. 80–646 · 62 Stat. 869

    Enacted · 28 U.S.C. § 1656

    June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 944

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 944

  2. Pub. L. 95–598 title II § 242 · 92 Stat. 2549

    Inserted · 28 U.S.C. § 1656

    Pub. L. 95–598 directed the amendment of section by inserting “or in a bankruptcy court” after “a district court”, which amendment did not become effective pursuant to section 402(b) of Pub. L. 95–598, as amended, set out as an Effective Date note preceding section 101 of Title 11, Bankruptcy

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 95–598 directed the amendment of section by inserting “or in a bankruptcy court” after “a district court”, which amendment did not become effective pursuant to section 402(b) of Pub. L. 95–598, as amended, set out as an Effective Date note preceding section 101 of Title 11, Bankruptcy.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 242. Section 1656 of title 28 of the United States Code is amended by inserting “or in a bankruptcy court” immediately after “a district court”.

1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Notes

Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 122 (Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 231, § 60, 36 Stat. 1103).

A provision as to creation of a new district or division or transfer of territory before , was omitted as obsolete.

Words descriptive of the lien were omitted as unnecessary.

Changes were made in phraseology.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1978—Pub. L. 95–598 directed the amendment of section by inserting “or in a bankruptcy court” after “a district court”, which amendment did not become effective pursuant to section 402(b) of Pub. L. 95–598, as amended, set out as an Effective Date note preceding section 101 of Title 11, Bankruptcy.

Credits

1948–1978 · 2 acts
  1. 1948June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 944
  2. 1978Pub. L. 95–598, title II, § 242, , 92 Stat. 2671.
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(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 944; Pub. L. 95–598, title II, § 242, , 92 Stat. 2671.)

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