Files
Fabio 76b8ec33a7 Legal corpus: the complete U.S. Code (59,740 sections, all 53 titles)
Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code
now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 ->
59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun,
verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make
legal-us-code default now covers every title.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-06 10:51:44 -04:00

2.5 KiB
Raw Permalink Blame History

type, title, description, jurisdiction, corpus, kind, title_number, title_name, chapter_number, chapter_name, section, citation, status, release_point, release_date, source, source_url, source_identifier, source_file, source_hash, raw_snapshot_hash, text_hash, retrieved_at, confidence, tags
type title description jurisdiction corpus kind title_number title_name chapter_number chapter_name section citation status release_point release_date source source_url source_identifier source_file source_hash raw_snapshot_hash text_hash retrieved_at confidence tags
LegalText 38 U.S.C. § 108 Seven-year absence presumption of death us united_states_code code_section 38 VETERANS BENEFITS 1 GENERAL 108 38 U.S.C. § 108 current 119-100 2026-06-26 official https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc38@119-100.zip /us/usc/t38/s108 data/legal/raw/us/code/title-38/usc38.xml ab001eff59d9c571037674647477d5a26028364e8eed10a7c7c3d9a3a80435b8 372998691b72ade88787dfa7633dbda4954bd1b037ec7926c5e06e9b1d17fc66 d3a28a10c77b8c4eea64c1742c5f4c183bde09e1797c85332e32dd164dc547ed 2026-07-04 official
legal
us-code

38 U.S.C. § 108 - Seven-year absence presumption of death

Text

(a) No State law providing for presumption of death shall be applicable to claims for benefits under laws administered by the Secretary.

(b) If evidence satisfactory to the Secretary is submitted establishing the continued and unexplained absence of any individual from that individuals home and family for seven or more years, and establishing that after diligent search no evidence of that individuals existence after the date of disappearance has been found or received, the death of such individual as of the date of the expiration of such period shall be considered as sufficiently proved.

(c) Except in a suit brought pursuant to section 1984 of this title, the finding of death made by the Secretary shall be final and conclusive.

(Pub. L. 85857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1112; Pub. L. 99576, title VII, § 701(7), Oct. 28, 1986, 100 Stat. 3291; Pub. L. 10283, §§ 4(a)(1), (b)(1), (2)(E), 5(c)(1), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 403406.)

Notes

Editorial Notes

Amendments1991—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 10283, § 4(a)(1), substituted “administered by the Secretary” for “administered by the Veterans Administration”. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 10283, § 4(b)(1), (2)(E), substituted “Secretary” for “Administrator”. Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 10283, § 5(c)(1), substituted “1984” for “784”. Pub. L. 10283, § 4(b)(1), (2)(E), substituted “Secretary” for “Administrator”. 1986—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 99576 substituted “that individuals” for “his” in two places.