Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73not60

§1641d Claims of Nationals of the United States Against the Soviet Union

Title 22 › Chapter 21— SETTLEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL CLAIMS › Subchapter III— CLAIMS AGAINST BULGARIA, HUNGARY, RUMANIA, ITALY, AND THE SOVIET UNION › § 1641d

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Decide, under U.S. and international law, two kinds of claims that started before November 16, 1933. First are claims by U.S. citizens against a Russian person based on a U.S. or State court judgment or attachment that created a lien on U.S. property later taken or sold by the U.S. Government under the Litvinov Assignment. Awards for these claims cannot be more than the money actually recovered from that property and must be split in proportion if the money is less than the total claims. Second are claims by U.S. citizens against the Soviet Government that arose before that date. Any U.S. or State court judgment is binding on the Commission for issues the court decided. The Commission must handle the first kind of claim before other claims.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §1641d

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(a)The Commission shall receive and determine in accordance with applicable substantive law, including international law, the validity and amounts of—

(1)claims of nationals of the United States against a Russian national originally accruing in favor of a national of the United States with respect to which a judgment was entered in, or a warrant of attachment issued from, any court of the United States or of a State of the United States in favor of a national of the United States, with which judgment or warrant of attachment a lien was obtained by a national of the United States, prior to November 16, 1933, upon any property in the United States which has been taken, collected, recovered, or liquidated by the Government of the United States pursuant to the Litvinov Assignment. Awards under this paragraph shall not exceed the proceeds of such property as may have been subject to the lien of the judgment or attachment; nor, in the event that such proceeds are less than the aggregate amount of all valid claims so related to the same property, exceed an amount equal to the proportion which each such claim bears to the total amount of such proceeds; and

(2)claims, arising prior to November 16, 1933, of nationals of the United States against the Soviet Government.

(b)Any judgment entered in any court of the United States or of a State of the United States shall be binding upon the Commission in its determination, under paragraph (1) of subsection (a) of this section, of any issue which was determined by the court in which the judgment was entered.

(c)The Commission shall give preference to the disposition of the claims referred to in paragraph (1) of subsection (a) of this section, over all other claims presented to it under this subchapter.

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 1641d

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60