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[CITE: 28USC1444]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                     PART IV--JURISDICTION AND VENUE
 
     CHAPTER 89--DISTRICT COURTS; REMOVAL OF CASES FROM STATE COURTS
 
Sec. 1444. Foreclosure action against United States

    Any action brought under section 2410 of this title against the 
United States in any State court may be removed by the United States to 
the district court of the United States for the district and division in 
which the action is pending.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 938; May 24, 1949, ch. 139, Sec. 82, 
63 Stat. 101.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

                            1948 Act

    Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 903 (Mar. 4, 1931, ch. 
515, Sec. 3, 46 Stat. 1529).
    The procedural provisions of section 903 of title 28, U.S.C., 1940 
ed., were omitted as covered by section 1446 of this title.
    Changes were made in phraseology.

                            1949 Act

    This section corrects typographical errors in section 1444 of title 
28, U.S.C.


                               Amendments

    1949--Act May 24, 1949, inserted ``court'' between ``State'' and 
``may'', and substituted ``division'' for ``divisions''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 2410 of this title; title 26 
section 7424.
