---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 2004"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "2004"
heading: "Sale of personalty generally"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/2004"
units:
  - "Part V — Procedure"
  - "Chapter 127 — Executions and Judicial Sales"
---

# §2004. Sale of personalty generally


Any personalty sold under any order or decree of any court of the United States shall be sold in accordance with [section 2001 of this title](/usc/28/2001.md), unless the court orders otherwise.

This section shall not apply to sales and proceedings under [Title 11](/usc/11.md) or by receivers or conservators of banks appointed by the Comptroller of the Currency.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 959.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 848 (Mar. 3, 1893, ch. 225, § 2, 27 Stat. 751; Apr. 24, 1935, ch. 77, § 2, 49 Stat. 160; June 19, 1935, ch. 276, 49 Stat. 390).

A provision making the section applicable to pending proceedings was deleted as obsolete.

Changes were made in phraseology.