---
kind: "unit"
title: "11"
title_heading: "Bankruptcy"
key: "ch5/schIII"
level: "subchapter"
label: "Subchapter III"
heading: "The Estate"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/11/ch5-schIII"
sections_count: 22
---

# Subchapter III — The Estate

Title 11 — Bankruptcy › Chapter 5 — Creditors, the Debtor, and the Estate

## Sections

- [§541. Property of the estate](/usc/11/541.md)
- [§542. Turnover of property to the estate](/usc/11/542.md)
- [§543. Turnover of property by a custodian](/usc/11/543.md)
- [§544. Trustee as lien creditor and as successor to certain creditors and purchasers](/usc/11/544.md)
- [§545. Statutory liens](/usc/11/545.md)
- [§546. Limitations on avoiding powers](/usc/11/546.md)
- [§547. Preferences](/usc/11/547.md)
- [§548. Fraudulent transfers and obligations](/usc/11/548.md)
- [§549. Postpetition transactions](/usc/11/549.md)
- [§550. Liability of transferee of avoided transfer](/usc/11/550.md)
- [§551. Automatic preservation of avoided transfer](/usc/11/551.md)
- [§552. Postpetition effect of security interest](/usc/11/552.md)
- [§553. Setoff](/usc/11/553.md)
- [§554. Abandonment of property of the estate](/usc/11/554.md)
- [§555. Contractual right to liquidate, terminate, or accelerate a securities contract](/usc/11/555.md)
- [§556. Contractual right to liquidate, terminate, or accelerate a commodities contract or forward contract](/usc/11/556.md)
- [§557. Expedited determination of interests in, and abandonment or other disposition of grain assets](/usc/11/557.md)
- [§558. Defenses of the estate](/usc/11/558.md)
- [§559. Contractual right to liquidate, terminate, or accelerate a repurchase agreement](/usc/11/559.md)
- [§560. Contractual right to liquidate, terminate, or accelerate a swap agreement](/usc/11/560.md)
- [§561. Contractual right to terminate, liquidate, accelerate, or offset under a master netting agreement and across contracts; proceedings under chapter 15](/usc/11/561.md)
- [§562. Timing of damage measurement in connection with swap agreements, securities contracts, forward contracts, commodity contracts, repurchase agreements, and master netting agreements](/usc/11/562.md)