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[CITE: 28USC1347]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                     PART IV--JURISDICTION AND VENUE
 
                CHAPTER 85--DISTRICT COURTS; JURISDICTION
 
Sec. 1347. Partition action where United States is joint tenant

    The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil 
action commenced by any tenant in common or joint tenant for the 
partition of lands where the United States is one of the tenants in 
common or joint tenants.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 933.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 41(25) (Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 
231, Sec. 24, par. 25, 36 Stat. 1094).
    The venue provision in section 41(25) of title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., 
is incorporated in section 1399 of this title.
    Words ``civil action'' were substituted for ``suits in equity,'' in 
view of Rule 2 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
    A change was made in phraseology.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 2409a of this title.