Individual liability of shareholders; compromises; authority of receiver
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/us/usc/t12/s67
Title
12 — Banks and Banking
Chapter
CH2
Release
119-84
Release Date
2026-04-17
Section Text
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Any receiver of a national banking association is authorized, with the approval of the Comptroller of the Currency and upon the order of a court of record of competent jurisdiction, to compromise, either before or after judgment, the individual liability of any shareholder of such association.
(Feb. 25, 1930, ch. 58, 46 Stat. 74.)
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Application to District of ColumbiaProvisions of this section were made applicable to banks, etc., in the District of Columbia by act Mar. 4, 1933, ch. 274, § 4, 47 Stat. 1567.
Executive Documents
Exception as to Transfer of Functions
Functions vested by any provision of law in Comptroller of the Currency, referred to in this section, not included in transfer to Secretary of the Treasury, see note set out under section 1 of this title.
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