[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 8, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 8CFR274.6]

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                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
CHAPTER I--IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
 
PART 274--SEIZURE AND FORFEITURE OF CONVEYANCES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 274.6  Proof of property interest.

    The burden of proof is on a claimant to establish that the asserted 
property interest in a seized conveyance existed on the date of seizure 
of that conveyance by submission of sufficient satisfactory original 
documentation or certified copies of the original documentation. If the 
claimant fails to present documentation showing compliance

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with required state formalities it will be presumed that a property 
interest in a seized conveyance did not exist on the date of seizure of 
that conveyance.