Files
Fabio 76b8ec33a7 Legal corpus: the complete U.S. Code (59,740 sections, all 53 titles)
Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code
now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 ->
59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun,
verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make
legal-us-code default now covers every title.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-06 10:51:44 -04:00

2.5 KiB
Raw Permalink Blame History

type, title, description, jurisdiction, corpus, kind, title_number, title_name, chapter_number, chapter_name, section, citation, status, release_point, release_date, source, source_url, source_identifier, source_file, source_hash, raw_snapshot_hash, text_hash, retrieved_at, confidence, tags
type title description jurisdiction corpus kind title_number title_name chapter_number chapter_name section citation status release_point release_date source source_url source_identifier source_file source_hash raw_snapshot_hash text_hash retrieved_at confidence tags
LegalText 50 U.S.C. § 3954 Settlement of stayed cases relating to personal property us united_states_code code_section 50 WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE 50 SERVICEMEMBERS CIVIL RELIEF 3954 50 U.S.C. § 3954 current 119-100 2026-06-26 official https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc50@119-100.zip /us/usc/t50/s3954 data/legal/raw/us/code/title-50/usc50.xml 62edf6217c920f06b41322998a500ff64522e0dccc5e0f5b1fb2354f2e33f20e 708c288b5448617cab7b03b8011860274671c9aec56686858b910a06948cd7ac 16d9a9940c4771aacd92de44602cb801d8a8fce3f8169fb9866e56edec57af8e 2026-07-04 official
legal
us-code

50 U.S.C. § 3954 - Settlement of stayed cases relating to personal property

Text

(a) Appraisal of property When a stay is granted pursuant to this chapter in a proceeding to foreclose a mortgage on or to repossess personal property, or to rescind or terminate a contract for the purchase of personal property, the court may appoint three disinterested parties to appraise the property.

(b) Equity payment Based on the appraisal, and if undue hardship to the servicemembers dependents will not result, the court may order that the amount of the servicemembers equity in the property be paid to the servicemember, or the servicemembers dependents, as a condition of foreclosing the mortgage, repossessing the property, or rescinding or terminating the contract.

(Oct. 17, 1940, ch. 888, title III, § 304, as added Pub. L. 108189, § 1, Dec. 19, 2003, 117 Stat. 2848.)

Notes

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 534 of the former Appendix to this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Prior ProvisionsA prior section 304 of act Oct. 17, 1940, ch. 888, art. III, as added Oct. 6, 1942, ch. 581, § 12, 56 Stat. 772; amended Pub. L. 10212, § 9(9), Mar. 18, 1991, 105 Stat. 40, related to termination of leases by lessees, prior to the general amendment of this Act by Pub. L. 108189. See section 3955 of this title.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective DateSection applicable to any case not final before Dec. 19, 2003, see section 3 of Pub. L. 108189, set out as a note under section 3901 of this title.