---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 2717"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "2717"
heading: "Discharge"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/2717"
units:
  - "Part VI — Particular Proceedings"
  - "Chapter 173 — Attachment in Postal Suits"
---

# §2717. Discharge


The [court](/usc/28/3002.md?p=2), or a judge thereof, upon—

- (1) application of the party when [property](/usc/28/3002.md?p=12) has been attached and
- (2) execution to the [United States](/usc/28/3002.md?p=15) of a penal bond, approved by a judge, in double the value of the [property](/usc/28/3002.md?p=12) attached and conditioned upon the return of the [property](/usc/28/3002.md?p=12) or the payment of any [judgment](/usc/28/3002.md?p=8) rendered by the [court](/usc/28/3002.md?p=2)

may discharge the warrant of attachment as to the [property](/usc/28/3002.md?p=12) of the applicant.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 86–682, § 9, Sept. 2, 1960, 74 Stat. 708.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was derived from R.S. § 931, which was originally classified to section 744 of former Title 28. Following the general revision and enactment of Title 28 by act June 25, 1948, R.S. § 931 was reclassified to section 844 of Title 39. R.S. § 931 was repealed by Pub.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 2717 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.