---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 2"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "2"
heading: "Terms of court"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/2"
units:
  - "Part I — Organization of Courts"
  - "Chapter 1 — Supreme Court"
---

# §2. Terms of court


The Supreme Court shall hold at the seat of government a term of court commencing on the first Monday in October of each year and may hold such adjourned or special terms as may be necessary.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 869.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 338 (Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 231, § 230, 36 Stat. 1156; Sept. 6, 1916, ch. 448, § 1, 39 Stat. 726).

Minor changes in phraseology were made.