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[CITE: 50USC215]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                        CHAPTER 13--INSURRECTION
 
Sec. 215. Institution of confiscation proceedings

    The Attorney General, or the United States attorney for any judicial 
district in which such property may at the time be, may institute the 
proceedings of condemnation, and in such case they shall be wholly for 
the benefit of the United States; or any person may file an information 
with such attorney, in which case the proceedings shall be for the use 
of such informer and the United States in equal parts.

(R.S. Sec. 5311; June 25, 1948, ch. 646, Sec. 1, 62 Stat. 909.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 5311 derived from act Aug. 6, 1861, ch. 60, Sec. 3, 12 
Stat. 319.

                         Change of Name

    Act June 25, 1948, eff. Sept. 1, 1948, substituted ``United States 
attorney'' for ``attorney of the United States''. See section 541 of 
Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure, and Historical and Revision 
Notes thereunder.
