Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-102
§8856 Duties of United States Attorney
Title 10 › Subtitle C — Navy and Marine Corps › PART IV — GENERAL ADMINISTRATION › CHAPTER 883 — PRIZE › § 8856
Summary
The U.S. attorney for the district must represent the United States in any prize cases decided there. They must protect the United States’ interests and check all fees, costs, and expenses that someone wants taken from the prize fund. When one or more prize cases are pending in the district, the U.S. attorney must send the Secretary of the Navy a statement of all those cases at least once every three months, using the form and details the Secretary requires.
Full Legal Text
Title 10, §8856
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(a)The interests of the United States in a prize cause shall be represented by the United States attorney for the judicial district in which the prize cause is adjudicated. The United States attorney shall protect the interests of the United States and shall examine all fees, costs, and expenses sought to be charged against the prize fund.
(b)In a judicial district where one or more prize causes are pending the United States attorney shall send to the Secretary of the Navy, at least once every three months, a statement of all such causes in the form and covering the particulars required by the Secretary.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Historical and Revision Notes
Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 765634 U.S.C. 1136.R.S. 4619. The Act of March 3, 1899, ch. 413, § 13, 30 Stat. 1007, which repealed all laws authorizing the distribution of prize money to captors, rendered inoperative parts of R.S. 4619 relative to protection of captors’ interest. These parts are omitted from 34 U.S.C. 1136 and from the revised section.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 7656 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.
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Citation
10 U.S.C. § 8856
Title 10, Armed Forces
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102