---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 8869"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "8869"
heading: "Security for costs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/8869"
units:
  - "Subtitle C — Navy and Marine Corps"
  - "Part IV — General Administration"
  - "Chapter 883 — Prize"
---

# §8869. Security for costs


The court may require any party to give security for costs at any stage of the cause and upon filing an appeal.


## Source credit

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 480, § 7669; renumbered § 8869, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(d)(9), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1837.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 7669 | 34 U.S.C. 1148. | R.S. 4638. |

The word “filing” is substituted for the word “claiming”.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 7669 of this title as this section.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2018 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of amendments and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.