Federal
Title 11 — Bankruptcy
560 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.
- § 542 — Turnover of property to the estate
- § 543 — Turnover of property by a custodian
- § 544 — Trustee as lien creditor and as successor to certain creditors and purchasers
- § 545 — Statutory liens
- § 546 — Limitations on avoiding powers
- § 547 — Preferences
- § 548 — Fraudulent transfers and obligations
- § 549 — Postpetition transactions
- § 550 — Liability of transferee of avoided transfer
- § 551 — Automatic preservation of avoided transfer
- § 552 — Postpetition effect of security interest
- § 553 — Setoff
- § 554 — Abandonment of property of the estate
- § 555 — Contractual right to liquidate, terminate, or accelerate a securities contract
- § 556 — Contractual right to liquidate, terminate, or accelerate a commodities contract or forward contract
- § 557 — Expedited determination of interests in, and abandonment or other disposition of grain assets
- § 558 — Defenses of the estate
- § 559 — Contractual right to liquidate, terminate, or accelerate a repurchase agreement
- § 560 — Contractual right to liquidate, terminate, or accelerate a swap agreement
- § 561 — Contractual right to terminate, liquidate, accelerate, or offset under a master netting agreement and across contracts; proceedings under chapter 15
- § 562 — Timing of damage measurement in connection with swap agreements, securities contracts, forward contracts, commodity contracts, repurchase agreements, and master netting agreements
- § 701 — Interim trustee
- § 702 — Election of trustee
- § 703 — Successor trustee
- § 704 — Duties of trustee
- § 705 — Creditors’ committee
- § 706 — Conversion
- § 707 — Dismissal of a case or conversion to a case under chapter 11 or 13
- § 721 — Authorization to operate business
- § 722 — Redemption
- § 723 — Rights of partnership trustee against general partners
- § 724 — Treatment of certain liens
- § 725 — Disposition of certain property
- § 726 — Distribution of property of the estate
- § 727 — Discharge
- § 728 — Repealed. Pub. L. 109–8, title VII, § 719(b)(1) , Apr. 20, 2005 , 119 Stat. 133 ]
- § 741 — Definitions for this subchapter
- § 742 — Effect of section 362 of this title in this subchapter
- § 743 — Notice
- § 744 — Executory contracts
- § 745 — Treatment of accounts
- § 746 — Extent of customer claims
- § 747 — Subordination of certain customer claims
- § 748 — Reduction of securities to money
- § 749 — Voidable transfers
- § 750 — Distribution of securities
- § 751 — Customer name securities
- § 752 — Customer property
- § 753 — Stockbroker liquidation and forward contract merchants, commodity brokers, stockbrokers, financial institutions, financial participants, securities clearing agencies, swap participants, repo participants, and master netting agreement participants
- § 761 — Definitions for this subchapter
- § 762 — Notice to the Commission and right to be heard
- § 763 — Treatment of accounts
- § 764 — Voidable transfers
- § 765 — Customer instructions
- § 766 — Treatment of customer property
- § 767 — Commodity broker liquidation and forward contract merchants, commodity brokers, stockbrokers, financial institutions, financial participants, securities clearing agencies, swap participants, repo participants, and master netting agreement participants
- § 781 — Definitions
- § 782 — Selection of trustee
- § 783 — Additional powers of trustee
- § 784 — Right to be heard
- § 901 — Applicability of other sections of this title
- § 902 — Definitions for this chapter
- § 903 — Reservation of State power to control municipalities
- § 904 — Limitation on jurisdiction and powers of court
- § 921 — Petition and proceedings relating to petition
- § 922 — Automatic stay of enforcement of claims against the debtor
- § 923 — Notice
- § 924 — List of creditors
- § 925 — Effect of list of claims
- § 926 — Avoiding powers
- § 927 — Limitation on recourse
- § 928 — Post petition effect of security interest
- § 929 — Municipal leases
- § 930 — Dismissal
- § 941 — Filing of plan
- § 942 — Modification of plan
- § 943 — Confirmation
- § 944 — Effect of confirmation
- § 945 — Continuing jurisdiction and closing of the case
- § 946 — Effect of exchange of securities before the date of the filing of the petition