---
kind: "section"
citation: "1 U.S.C. § 5"
title: "1"
title_heading: "General Provisions"
number: "5"
heading: "“Company” or “association” as including successors and assigns"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/1/5"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Rules of Construction"
---

# §5. “Company” or “association” as including successors and assigns


The word “company” or “association”, when used in reference to a corporation, shall be deemed to embrace the words “successors and assigns of such company or association”, in like manner as if these last-named words, or words of similar import, were expressed.


## Source credit

(July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 633.)