---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 2413"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "2413"
heading: "Executions in favor of United States"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/2413"
units:
  - "Part VI — Particular Proceedings"
  - "Chapter 161 — United States as Party Generally"
---

# §2413. Executions in favor of United States


A writ of execution on a [judgment](/usc/28/3002.md?p=8) obtained for the use of the [United States](/usc/28/3002.md?p=15) in any [court](/usc/28/3002.md?p=2) thereof shall be issued from and made returnable to the [court](/usc/28/3002.md?p=2) which rendered the [judgment](/usc/28/3002.md?p=8), but may be executed in any other [State](/usc/28/3002.md?p=14), in any Territory, or in the District of Columbia.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 974.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 839 (R.S. § 986).

Words “or in the District of Columbia” were added on the authority of 14 Op. Atty. Gen. 384, declaring that, under this section, a writ of execution in favor of the United States, obtained from a Federal court in any State, could be executed in the District of Columbia. (See, also, section 1963 of this title.)

Changes in phraseology were made.