---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 2715"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "2715"
heading: "Publication"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/2715"
units:
  - "Part VI — Particular Proceedings"
  - "Chapter 173 — Attachment in Postal Suits"
---

# §2715. Publication


The marshal shall cause publication of an executed warrant of attachment—

- (1) for two months in case of an absconding [debtor](/usc/28/3002.md?p=4), and
- (2) for four months in case of a nonresident [debtor](/usc/28/3002.md?p=4)

in a newspaper published in the district where the [property](/usc/28/3002.md?p=12) is situated pursuant to the details of the order under which the warrant is issued.


## Source credit

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

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was derived from R.S. § 929, which was originally classified to section 742 of former Title 28. Following the general revision and enactment of Title 28 by act June 25, 1948, R.S. § 929 was reclassified to section 842 of Title 39. R.S. § 929 was repealed by Pub. L. 86–682, § 12(c), Sept. 2, 1960, 74 Stat. 708, (section 1 of which revised and enacted Title 39), and reenacted by section 9 thereof as section 2715 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.