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Title 28 — Judiciary and Judicial Procedure

Part V · Chapter 129 — Moneys Paid Into Court

§ 2042. Withdrawal

Statutory text

No money deposited under section 2041 of this title shall be withdrawn except by order of court.

In every case in which the right to withdraw money deposited in court under section 2041 has been adjudicated or is not in dispute and such money has remained so deposited for at least five years unclaimed by the person entitled thereto, such court shall cause such money to be deposited in the Treasury in the name and to the credit of the United States. Any claimant entitled to any such money may, on petition to the court and upon notice to the United States attorney and full proof of the right thereto, obtain an order directing payment to him.

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. § 2042

    June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 960

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 960

  2. Pub. L. 97–258 § 2(g)(4)(D) · 96 Stat. 1061

    Inserted · 28 U.S.C. § 2042

    Pub. L. 97–258 inserted references to section 2041 in two places

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 97–258 inserted references to section 2041 in two places.

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

Notes

Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 852 (R.S. § 996; Feb. 19, 1897, ch. 265, § 3, 29 Stat. 578; Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 224, 36 Stat. 1083).

Words “and the money deposited as aforesaid shall constitute and be a permanent appropriation for payments in obedience to such orders” were omitted, in view of section 725p(b)(14), of title 31, U.S.C., 1940 ed., which repealed permanent appropriations of unclaimed money accounts and substituted authorization for annual appropriations effective .

Changes were made in phraseology.

In U. S. Law Week, , Rep. Walter Chandler (Author of Chandler Act, Bankruptcy) observed as to the Judicial Code:

“Among the major subjects needing study and revision are—Numerous procedural changes which have been brought about through adoption of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure should be codified.”

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Editorial Notes

Amendments

1982—Pub. L. 97–258 inserted references to section 2041 in two places.

Credits

1948–1982 · 2 acts
  1. 1948June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 960
  2. 1982Pub. L. 97–258, § 2(g)(4)(D), , 96 Stat. 1061.
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(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 960; Pub. L. 97–258, § 2(g)(4)(D), , 96 Stat. 1061.)

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