---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 223"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "223"
heading: "Forfeiture of vessels owned by citizens of insurrectionary States"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/223"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — Insurrection"
---

# §223. Forfeiture of vessels owned by citizens of insurrectionary States


From and after fifteen days after the issuing of the proclamation, as provided in [section 205 of this title](/usc/50/205.md), any vessel belonging in whole or in part to any citizen or inhabitant of such State or part of a State whose inhabitants are so declared in a state of insurrection, found at sea, or in any port of the rest of the United States, shall be forfeited.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 5319.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 5319 derived from act July 12, 1861, ch. 3, § 7, 12 Stat. 257.