22 U.S.C. § 1631
Section 1631 · Definitions
Amended 2 times on record
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Ghitescu v. United States (1973)
Most recently applied in Ghitescu v. United States (April 1973)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
As used in this subchapter the term—
(1) “Person” means a natural person, partnership, association, other unincorporated body, corporation, or body politic.
(2) “Property” means any property, right, or interest.
(3) “Treaty of peace”, with respect to a country, means the treaty of peace with that country signed at Paris, France, February 10, 1947, which came into force between that country and the United States on September 15, 1947.