---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 2711"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "2711"
heading: "Application for warrant"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/2711"
units:
  - "Part VI — Particular Proceedings"
  - "Chapter 173 — Attachment in Postal Suits"
---

# §2711. Application for warrant


A [United States](/usc/28/3002.md?p=15) attorney or assistant [United States](/usc/28/3002.md?p=15) attorney or a [person](/usc/28/3002.md?p=10) authorized by the Attorney General—

- (1) upon his own affidavit or that of another credible [person](/usc/28/3002.md?p=10), stating the existence of either of the grounds of attachments enumerated in [section 2710 of this title](/usc/28/2710.md) and
- (2) upon production of legal evidence of the [debt](/usc/28/3002.md?p=3)

may apply for a warrant of attachment to a judge, or, in his absence, to the [clerk](/usc/28/2341.md?p=1) of any [court](/usc/28/3002.md?p=2) of the [United States](/usc/28/3002.md?p=15) having original jurisdiction of the cause of action.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 86–682, § 9, Sept. 2, 1960, 74 Stat. 707.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was derived from R.S. § 925, which was originally classified to section 738 of former Title 28. Following the general revision and enactment of Title 28 by act June 25, 1948, R.S. § 925 was reclassified to section 838 of Title 39. R.S. § 925 was repealed by section 12(c) of Pub. L. 86–682 (section 1 of which revised and enacted Title 39), and reenacted by section 9 thereof as section 2711 of this title.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Sept. 1, 1960, see section 11 of Pub. L. 86–682, 74 Stat. 708.