
From the U.S. Code Online via GPO Access
[wais.access.gpo.gov]
[Laws in effect as of January 23, 2000]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
  January 23, 2000 and December 4, 2001]
[CITE: 50USC213]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                        CHAPTER 13--INSURRECTION
 
Sec. 213. Jurisdiction of confiscation proceedings

    Such prizes and capture shall be condemned in the district court of 
the United States having jurisdiction of the amount, or in admiralty in 
any district in which the same may be seized, or into which they may be 
taken and proceedings first instituted.

(R.S. Sec. 5309; Feb. 27, 1877, ch. 69, Sec. 1, 19 Stat. 253; Mar. 3, 
1911, ch. 231, Sec. 291, 36 Stat. 1167.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 5309 derived derived from act Aug. 6, 1861, ch. 60, 
Sec. 2, 12 Stat. 319.
    Act Mar. 3, 1911, conferred the powers and duties of the former 
circuit courts upon the district courts.


                               Amendments

    1877--Act Feb. 27, 1877, inserted ``may'' after ``any district in 
which the same''.
