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CHAPTER 57⁠—GENERAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO COURT OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES — Front Matter

Chap.Sec.
951.Oath of office of clerks and deputies.
[ 952.Repealed.]
953.Administration of oaths and acknowledgments.
954.Vacancy in clerk position; absence of clerk.
955.Practice of law restricted.
956.Powers and duties of clerks and deputies.
957.Clerks ineligible for certain offices.
958.Persons ineligible as receivers.
959.Trustees and receivers suable; management; State laws.
960.Tax liability.
961.Office expenses of clerks.
[ 962.Repealed.]
963.Courts defined.

Senate Revision Amendment

This chapter was renumbered “57”, but without change in its section numbers, by Senate amendment. See 80th Congress Senate Report No. 1559.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1996⁠—Pub. L. 104–317, title II, § 204(b), Oct. 19, 1996, 110 Stat. 3850, substituted “Vacancy in clerk position; absence of clerk” for “Death of clerk; duties of deputies” in item 954.

1972⁠—Pub. L. 92–310, title II, § 206(e)(2), (f)(2), June 6, 1972, 86 Stat. 203, struck out item 952 “Bonds of clerks and deputies”, and struck out “and remedies against” before “deputies” in item 954.

1968⁠—Pub. L. 90–623, § 4, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1315, struck out item 962 “Traveling expenses”.

1949⁠—Act May 24, 1949, ch. 139, § 78a, 63 Stat. 101, struck out “by clerks” after “law” in item 955.