---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 2716"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "2716"
heading: "Personal notice"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/2716"
units:
  - "Part VI — Particular Proceedings"
  - "Chapter 173 — Attachment in Postal Suits"
---

# §2716. Personal notice


After the first publication of the notice of attachment, a [person](/usc/28/3002.md?p=10) indebted to, or having possession of [property](/usc/28/3002.md?p=12) of a defendant and having knowledge of the notice, shall answer for the amount of his [debt](/usc/28/3002.md?p=3) or the value of the [property](/usc/28/3002.md?p=12). Any disposal or attempted disposal of the [property](/usc/28/3002.md?p=12), to the injury of the [United States](/usc/28/3002.md?p=15), is unlawful. When the [person](/usc/28/3002.md?p=10) indebted to, or having possession of the [property](/usc/28/3002.md?p=12) of a defendant, is known to the [United States](/usc/28/3002.md?p=15) attorney or marshal, the officer shall cause a personal notice of the attachment to be served upon him, but the lack of the notice does not invalidate the attachment.


## Source credit

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

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was derived from R.S. § 930, which was originally classified to section 743 of former Title 28. Following the general revision and enactment of Title 28 by act June 25, 1948, R.S. § 930 was reclassified to section 843 of Title 39. R.S. § 930 was repealed by Pub.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 2716 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.