50 U.S.C. § 4131 — Definitions

Page 1037 TITLE 50—WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE § 4132 (2) In the case of each claim allowed in an amount greater than $500, such claim shall be paid in two installments. The first installment shall be paid in an amount equal to $500 plus 662⁄3 per centum of the amount of such claim allowed in excess of $500. The last installment shall be computed as of September 1, 1956, under the next sentence of this paragraph, and, as so computed, shall be paid from the sums remaining in the War Claims Fund on that date. If the sums remaining in the War Claims Fund on September 1, 1956, are suffi- cient to satisfy all claims allowed under this section and not paid in full, the unpaid portion of each such claim shall be paid in full; if the sums remaining in the War Claims Fund on September 1, 1956, are not sufficient to satisfy all claims allowed under this section and not paid in full, the last installment payable on each such claim shall be reduced ratably, and, as so reduced, shall be paid from the War Claims Fund. (July 3, 1948, ch. 826, title I, § 17, as added Aug. 31, 1954, ch. 1162, title I, § 103, 68 Stat. 1035; amended Pub. L. 87–846, title I, § 102, Oct. 22, 1962, 76 Stat. 1107.) Editorial Notes CODIFICATION Section was formerly classified to section 2016 of the former Appendix to this title prior to editorial reclassi- fication and renumbering as this section. AMENDMENTS 1962—Pub. L. 87–846 made technical amendment to reference in original act which appears in text of sub- sec. (c) as reference to section 4104 of this title and ref- erence to section 4105 of this title and in subsec. (d) as reference to section 4110 of this title. Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS For provisions transferring Foreign Claims Settle- ment Commission of the United States to Department of Justice, as a separate agency, see section 1622a et seq. of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse. SUBCHAPTER II—TITLE II OF WAR CLAIMS ACT OF 1948 Editorial Notes CODIFICATION Pub. L. 87–846, § 103, Oct. 22, 1962, 76 Stat. 1107, added ‘‘title II’’ (§§ 201 to 217) to the War Claims Act of 1948 (act July 3, 1948, ch. 826) without supplying a name for such title, which for purposes of codification has been set out as this subchapter. § 4131. Definitions As used in this subchapter the term or terms— (a) ‘‘Albania’’, ‘‘Austria’’, ‘‘Czechoslovakia’’, ‘‘the Free Territory of Danzig’’, ‘‘Estonia’’, ‘‘Germany’’, ‘‘Greece’’, ‘‘Latvia’’, ‘‘Lithuania’’, ‘‘Poland’’, and ‘‘Yugoslavia’’, when used in their respective geographical senses, mean the terri- torial limits of each such country or free terri- tory, as the case may be, in continental Europe as such limits existed on December 1, 1937. (b) ‘‘Commission’’ means the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States es- tablished pursuant to Reorganization Plan Num- bered 1 of 1954 (68 Stat. 1279). (c) ‘‘National of the United States’’ means (1) a natural person who is a citizen of the United States, (2) a natural person who, though not a citizen of the United States, owes permanent al- legiance to the United States, and (3) a corpora- tion, partnership, unincorporated body, or other entity, organized under the laws of the United States, or of any State, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, or any possession of the United States and in which more than 50 per centum of the outstanding cap- ital stock or other proprietary or similar inter- est is owned, directly or indirectly, by persons referred to in clauses (1) and (2) of this sub- section. It does not include aliens. (d) ‘‘Property’’ means real property and such items of tangible personalty as can be identified and evaluated. (July 3, 1948, ch. 826, title II, § 201, as added Pub. L. 87–846, title I, § 103, Oct. 22, 1962, 76 Stat. 1107.) Editorial Notes REFERENCES IN TEXT Reorganization Plan Numbered 1 of 1954 (68 Stat. 1279), referred to in subsec. (b), is set out in the Appen- dix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employ- ees. CODIFICATION Section was formerly classified to section 2017 of the former Appendix to this title prior to editorial reclassi- fication and renumbering as this section. Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries SEPARABILITY Pub. L. 87–846, title III, § 301, Oct. 22, 1962, 76 Stat. 1117, provided that: ‘‘If any provision of this Act [see Tables for classification], or the application thereof to any person or circumstances, shall be held invalid, the remainder of this Act, or the application of such provi- sions to other persons or circumstances, shall not be af- fected.’’ TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS For provisions transferring Foreign Claims Settle- ment Commission of the United States to Department of Justice, as a separate agency, see section 1622a et seq. of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse. § 4132. Claims authorized The Commission is directed to receive and to determine according to the provisions of this subchapter the validity and amount of claims of nationals of the United States for— (a) loss or destruction of, or physical damage to, property located in Albania, Austria, Czechoslovakia, the Free Territory of Danzig, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, or Yugoslavia, or in territory which was part of Hungary or Rumania on December 1, 1937, but which was not included in such countries on September 15, 1947, which loss, destruction, or physical damage occurred dur- ing the period beginning September 1, 1939, and ending May 8, 1945, or which occurred in the period beginning July 1, 1937, and ending September 2, 1945, to property in territory oc- cupied or attacked by the Imperial Japanese