Title 50 — War and National Defense
Chapter 13 — Insurrection
§ 213. Jurisdiction of confiscation proceedings
Statutory text
Such prizes and capture shall be condemned in the district court of the United States having jurisdiction of the amount, or in admiralty in any district in which the same may be seized, or into which they may be taken and proceedings first instituted.
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.
R.S. § 5309
Enacted · 50 U.S.C. § 213
R.S. § 5309
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
R.S. § 5309
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
R.S. § 5309 derived from act Aug. 6, 1861, ch. 60, § 2, 12 Stat. 319.
Act , conferred the powers and duties of the former circuit courts upon the district courts.
Amendments
1877—Act , inserted “may” after “any district in which the same”.
Credits
1877–1911 · 3 acts
- R.S. § 5309
- 1877Feb. 27, 1877, ch. 69, § 1, 19 Stat. 253
- 1911Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 231, § 291, 36 Stat. 1167.
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(R.S. § 5309; Feb. 27, 1877, ch. 69, § 1, 19 Stat. 253; Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 231, § 291, 36 Stat. 1167.)