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title: "36 U.S.C. § 70707"
description: "Misnomer not to affect transfer of property"
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title_number: 36
title_name: "PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS"
chapter_number: "707"
chapter_name: "FREDERICK DOUGLASS MEMORIAL AND HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION"
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# 36 U.S.C. § 70707 - Misnomer not to affect transfer of property
## Text
A misnomer of the corporation does not affect any transfer of property to or from the corporation.
(Pub. L. 105225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1355.)
## Notes
Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 7070736:4405.June 6, 1900, ch. 806, § 5, 31 Stat. 663. In this section, the word “affect” is substituted for “defeat or annul”, and the words “transfer of property” are substituted for “grant, donation, gift, devise, or bequest”, to eliminate unnecessary words.