United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/25th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 14
Chap. XIV.—An Act to prevent the abatement of suits and actions now pending, in which the late Bank of the United States may be a party.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,No suit, &c., in which the late Bank of the U. S. is a party, shall abate, &c., by reason of the expiration of the two years after the expiration of the charter. That no suit, action, judgment or decree, now pending and unsatisfied, in which the late Bank of the United States is a party, plaintiff or defendant, shall abate, or be discontinued or dismissed, by reason of the expiration of the two years after the expiration of the charter, limited by the twenty-first section of the act of incorporation of the said bank, for the use of the corporate name, style, and capacity of said bank, for the purpose of suits for the final settlement and liquidation of the affairs and accounts of the corporation; but all such suits, actions, judgments and decrees, shall be allowed to proceed to final judgment, execution, satisfaction and settlement, as if the said two years had not expired.
Approved, March 2, 1838.