Title 28 — Judiciary and Judicial ProcedureRelease 119-73
§1692 Process and orders affecting property in different districts
Title 28 › Part PART V— - PROCEDURE › Chapter CHAPTER 113— - PROCESS › § 1692
Summary
Court may act when a receiver oversees property in several districts; orders affecting the property must be recorded in each district.
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Title 28, §1692
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In proceedings in a district court where a receiver is appointed for property, real, personal, or mixed, situated in different districts, process may issue and be executed in any such district as if the property lay wholly within one district, but orders affecting the property shall be entered of record in each of such districts.
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Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 117 (Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 231, § 56, 36 Stat. 1102). Provisions of section 117 of title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., as to jurisdiction and control of a receiver of property in several districts are the basis of section 754 of this title. For explanation of revision of section 117 of title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., and its extension to include property, not only in the same judicial circuit, but in any judicial circuit. (See reviser’s note under section 754 of this title.) Changes were made in phraseology.
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28 U.S.C. § 1692
Title 28 — Judiciary and Judicial Procedure
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73