---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 4133"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "4133"
heading: "Transfers and assignments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/4133"
units:
  - "Chapter 51 — War Claims"
  - "Subchapter II — Title Ii of War Claims Act of 1948"
---

# §4133. Transfers and assignments


The transfer or assignment for value of any [property](/usc/50/4131.md?p=d) forming the subject matter of a claim under subsection (a) or (b) of [section 4132 of this title](/usc/50/4132.md) subsequent to its damage, loss, or destruction shall not operate to extinguish any claim of the transferor otherwise compensable under either of such subsections. If a claim which could otherwise be allowed under subsection (a) or (b) of [section 4132 of this title](/usc/50/4132.md) has been assigned for value prior to October 22, 1962, the assignee shall be the party entitled to claim thereunder.


## Source credit

(July 3, 1948, ch. 826, title II, § 203, as added Pub. L. 87–846, title I, § 103, Oct. 22, 1962, 76 Stat. 1109.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 2017b of the former Appendix to this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.