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[CITE: 28USC2005]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                            PART V--PROCEDURE
 
               CHAPTER 127--EXECUTIONS AND JUDICIAL SALES
 
Sec. 2005. Appraisal of goods taken on execution

    Whenever State law requires that goods taken on execution be 
appraised before sale, goods taken under execution issued from a court 
of the United States shall be appraised in like manner.
    The United States marshal shall summon the appraisers in the same 
manner as the sheriff is required to summon appraisers under State law.
    If the appraisers fail to attend and perform their required duties, 
the marshal may sell the goods without an appraisal. Appraisers 
attending and performing their duties, shall receive the fees allowed 
for appraisals under State law.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 959.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 846 (R.S. Sec. 993).
    Words ``shall be appraised in like manner'' were substituted for 
``the appraisers appointed under the authority of the State may appraise 
goods taken in execution on a fieri facias issued out of any court of 
the United States''. The change precludes construction that the State 
appraisers only are available to appraise such goods in civil actions in 
the federal courts.
    Changes were made in phraseology.
