Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial ProcedureRelease 119-102
§1964 Constructive Notice of Pending Actions
Title 28 › PART V — PROCEDURE › CHAPTER 125 — PENDING ACTIONS AND JUDGMENTS › § 1964
Summary
If a state says a notice about a property lawsuit must be recorded, filed, or indexed in a certain office, county, or way to let people know, and the state lets you do the same for a U.S. district court case, then you must follow those state rules so the federal case gives that notice.
Full Legal Text
Title 28, §1964
Judiciary and Judicial Procedure, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
Where the law of a State requires a notice of an action concerning real property pending in a court of the State to be registered, recorded, docketed, or indexed in a particular manner, or in a certain office or county or parish in order to give constructive notice of the action as it relates to the real property, and such law authorizes a notice of an action concerning real property pending in a United States district court to be registered, recorded, docketed, or indexed in the same manner, or in the same place, those requirements of the State law must be complied with in order to give constructive notice of such an action pending in a United States district court as it relates to real property in such State.
Legislative History
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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Pub. L. 85–689, § 2, Aug. 20, 1958, 72 Stat. 683, provided that: “The
Amendments
made by this Act [enacting this section] shall only be effective with respect to actions commenced in United States district courts more than one hundred and eighty days after the date of enactment of this Act [Aug. 20, 1958].”
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Citation
28 U.S.C. § 1964
Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102