---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 1451"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "1451"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/1451"
units:
  - "Part IV — Jurisdiction and Venue"
  - "Chapter 89 — District Courts; Removal of Cases from State Courts"
---

# §1451. Definitions


For purposes of this chapter—

- (1) The term “State court” includes the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
- (2) The term “State” includes the District of Columbia.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 91–358, title I, § 172(d)(1), July 29, 1970, 84 Stat. 591.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective first day of seventh calendar month which begins after July 29, 1970, see section 199(a) of Pub. L. 91–358, set out as an Effective Date of 1970 Amendment note under section 1257 of this title.