---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 941"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "941"
heading: "Art. 141. Status"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/941"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 47 — Uniform Code of Military Justice"
  - "Subchapter XII — United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces"
---

# §941. Art. 141. Status


There is a court of [record](/usc/10/801.md?p=14) known as the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) Court of Appeals for the [Armed Forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4). The court is established under article I of the Constitution. The court is located for administrative purposes only in the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 101–189, div. A, title XIII, § 1301(c), Nov. 29, 1989, 103 Stat. 1570; amended Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title IX, § 924(a)(2), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2831.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–337 substituted “Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces” for “Court of Military Appeals”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title IX, § 924(a)(1), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2831, provided that: “The United States Court of Military Appeals shall hereafter be known and designated as the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.”