Title 50 — War and National Defense
Chapter 13 — Insurrection
§ 215. Institution of confiscation proceedings
Statutory text
The Attorney General, or the United States attorney for any judicial district in which such property may at the time be, may institute the proceedings of condemnation, and in such case they shall be wholly for the benefit of the United States; or any person may file an information with such attorney, in which case the proceedings shall be for the use of such informer and the United States in equal parts.
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. § 5311
Enacted · 50 U.S.C. § 215
R.S. § 5311
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
R.S. § 5311
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
R.S. § 5311 derived from act Aug. 6, 1861, ch. 60, § 3, 12 Stat. 319.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
Act , eff. , substituted “United States attorney” for “attorney of the United States”. See section 541 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure, and Historical and Revision Notes thereunder.
Credits
1948 · 2 acts
- R.S. § 5311
- 1948June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 1, 62 Stat. 909.
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(R.S. § 5311; June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 1, 62 Stat. 909.)