---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 31"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "31"
heading: "Rights and liabilities as affected by change of name"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/31"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — National Banks"
  - "Subchapter I — Organization and General Provisions"
---

# §31. Rights and liabilities as affected by change of name


All debts, liabilities, rights, provisions, and powers of the association under its old name shall devolve upon and inure to the association under its new name.


## Source credit

(May 1, 1886, ch. 73, § 3, 24 Stat. 19.)