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[CITE: 28USC1405]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                     PART IV--JURISDICTION AND VENUE
 
                   CHAPTER 87--DISTRICT COURTS; VENUE
 
Sec. 1405. Creation or alteration of district or division

    Actions or proceedings pending at the time of the creation of a new 
district or division or transfer of a county or territory from one 
division or district to another may be tried in the district or division 
as it existed at the institution of the action or proceeding, or in the 
district or division so created or to which the county or territory is 
so transferred as the parties shall agree or the court direct.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 937.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 121 (Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 
231, Sec. 59, 36 Stat. 1103).
    Enforcement of liens in like circumstances is provided by section 
1656 of this title.
    Remainder of section 121 of title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., is 
incorporated in section 3240 of revised title 18, Crimes and Criminal 
Procedure (H.R. 1600, 80th Cong.).
    Changes were made in phraseology.
