Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-102
§8821 Definitions
Title 10 › Subtitle C — Navy and Marine Corps › PART IV — GENERAL ADMINISTRATION › CHAPTER 881 — CLAIMS › § 8821
Summary
Defines two terms used in this chapter. "Vessel in the naval service" means any Navy ship that the Navy owns, crews, or has on a bareboat charter. If the Coast Guard is serving as part of the Navy, it also includes Coast Guard ships that are owned, crewed, or bareboat-chartered in the same way. "Settle" means to review and decide a claim — check the facts, set or adjust the amount, and either pay it fully, pay part of it, or deny it.
Full Legal Text
Title 10, §8821
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(a)In this chapter “vessel in the naval service” means—
(1)any vessel of the Navy, manned by the Navy, or chartered on bareboat charter to the Navy; or
(2)when the Coast Guard is operating as a service in the Navy, any vessel of the Coast Guard, manned by the Coast Guard, or chartered on bareboat charter to the Coast Guard.
(b)In this chapter “settle” means consider, ascertain, adjust, determine, and dispose of a claim, whether by full or partial allowance or by disallowance.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Historical and Revision Notes
Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 762146 U.S.C. 793.July 3, 1944, ch. 399, § 3, 58 Stat. 724. In subsection (a) the words “vessel in the naval service” are substituted for the words “vessels of the Navy or in the naval service”. The defined term is used throughout the chapter, and by definition includes vessels of the Navy. The words “when the Coast Guard is operating as a service in the Navy” are substituted for the words “the Coast Guard when operating as a part of the Navy” to conform to the terminology of 14 U.S.C. 3. Subsection (b) is inserted for clarity, and is based on the source laws for this revised chapter.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 7621 of this title as this section.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
of 2018 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of
Amendments
and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of authorities, functions, personnel, and assets of the Coast Guard, including the authorities and functions of the Secretary of Transportation relating thereto, to the Department of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see section 468(b), 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as modified, set out as a note under section 542 of Title 6.
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Citation
10 U.S.C. § 8821
Title 10, Armed Forces
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102