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[CITE: 28USC2716]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                     PART VI--PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS
 
                 CHAPTER 173--ATTACHMENT IN POSTAL SUITS
 
Sec. 2716. Personal notice

    After the first publication of the notice of attachment, a person 
indebted to, or having possession of property of a defendant and having 
knowledge of the notice, shall answer for the amount of his debt or the 
value of the property. Any disposal or attempted disposal of the 
property, to the injury of the United States, is unlawful. When the 
person indebted to, or having possession of the property of a defendant, 
is known to the United States attorney or marshal, the officer shall 
cause a personal notice of the attachment to be served upon him, but the 
lack of the notice does not invalidate the attachment.

(Added Pub. L. 86-682, Sec. 9, Sept. 2, 1960, 74 Stat. 707.)

                          Codification

    Section was derived from R.S. Sec. 930, which was originally 
classified to section 743 of former Title 28. Following the general 
revision and enactment of Title 28 by act June 25, 1948, R.S. Sec. 930 
was reclassified to section 843 of Title 39. R.S. Sec. 930 was repealed 
by section 12(c) of Pub. L. 86-682 (section 1 of which revised and 
enacted Title 39), and reenacted by section 9 thereof as section 2716 of 
this title.
