---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 1381"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "1381"
heading: "Retention by United States of title to real and personal property"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/1381"
units:
  - "Chapter 15 — The Republic of the Philippines"
  - "Subchapter V — Property Retained by the United States"
---

# §1381. Retention by United States of title to real and personal property


There shall remain vested in the Government of the [United States](/usc/22/1360.md?p=a-2) or its agencies or instrumentalities all the right, title, and interest of the said Government or its agencies or instrumentalities to all real and personal property within the Philippine Islands as may now be vested in, or later be acquired by the Government of the [United States](/usc/22/1360.md?p=a-2) or any of its agencies or instrumentalities.


## Source credit

(July 3, 1946, ch. 536, § 2, 60 Stat. 418.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title

Act July 3, 1946, ch. 536, § 1, 60 Stat. 418, provided that: “This Act [enacting this subchapter] may be cited as the ‘Philippine Property Act of 1946’.”