---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 40"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "40"
heading: "Transferred"
status: "transferred"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/40"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — Espionage"
---

# [§40. Transferred — transferred]



## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section, act June 15, 1917, ch. 30, title XIII, § 1, 40 Stat. 231, defined “United States” as used in act June 15, 1917, and was transferred to section 195 of this title.