50 U.S.C. § 4131 — Definitions
submitted 78 years ago by Pub. L. 87-846 to r/title-50-WAR-AND-NATIONAL-DEFENSE · 222 words · no verdicts yet
This section defines certain countries, the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, United States nationals, and property for the subchapter. The country definitions use their December 1, 1937, continental European boundaries.
(a) “Albania,” “Austria,” “Czechoslovakia,” “Free Territory of Danzig,” “Estonia,” “Germany,” “Greece,” “Latvia,” “Lithuania,” “Poland,” and “Yugoslavia,” when used geographically, mean each country's or territory's continental-European boundaries as they existed on December 1, 1937. (b) “Commission” means the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States established under Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1954. This section does not define that Commission further. (c) “National of the United States” means (1) a United States citizen who is a natural person; (2) a natural person who is not a citizen but owes permanent allegiance to the United States; or (3) a corporation, partnership, unincorporated body, or other entity organized under United States, State, Puerto Rico, District of Columbia, or United States-possession law, with more than 50 percent of its outstanding capital stock or other ownership interest directly or indirectly owned by people described in (1) or (2). It does not include aliens. (d) “Property” means real property and identifiable, evaluable tangible personal property.
As used in this subchapter the term or terms—
“Albania”, “Austria”, “Czechoslovakia”, “the Free Territory of Danzig”, “Estonia”, “Germany”, “Greece”, “Latvia”, “Lithuania”, “Poland”, and “Yugoslavia”, when used in their respective geographical senses, mean the territorial limits of each such country or free territory, as the case may be, in continental Europe as such limits existed on December 1, 1937.
“Commission” means the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States established pursuant to Reorganization Plan Numbered 1 of 1954 (68 Stat. 1279).
“National of the United States” means (1) a natural person who is a citizen of the United States, (2) a natural person who, though not a citizen of the United States, owes permanent allegiance to the United States, and (3) a corporation, partnership, unincorporated body, or other entity, organized under the laws of the United States, or of any State, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, or any possession of the United States and in which more than 50 per centum of the outstanding capital stock or other proprietary or similar interest is owned, directly or indirectly, by persons referred to in clauses (1) and (2) of this subsection. It does not include aliens.
“Property” means real property and such items of tangible personalty as can be identified and evaluated.
Source credit: (July 3, 1948, ch. 826, title II, § 201, as added Pub. L. 87–846, title I, § 103, Oct. 22, 1962, 76 Stat. 1107.)
- 1948Enacted · Pub. L. 87-846 · 76 Stat. 1107
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