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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>
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type: "LegalText"
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title: "45 U.S.C. § 52"
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description: "Carriers in Territories or other possessions of United States"
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jurisdiction: "us"
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corpus: "united_states_code"
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kind: "code_section"
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title_number: 45
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title_name: "RAILROADS"
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chapter_number: "2"
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chapter_name: "LIABILITY FOR INJURIES TO EMPLOYEES"
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section: "52"
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citation: "45 U.S.C. § 52"
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status: "current"
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release_point: "119-100"
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release_date: "2026-06-26"
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source: "official"
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source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc45@119-100.zip"
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source_identifier: "/us/usc/t45/s52"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
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confidence: "official"
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tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
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---
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# 45 U.S.C. § 52 - Carriers in Territories or other possessions of United States
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## Text
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Every common carrier by railroad in the Territories, the District of Columbia, the Panama Canal Zone, or other possessions of the United States shall be liable in damages to any person suffering injury while he is employed by such carrier in any of said jurisdictions, or, in case of the death of such employee, to his or her personal representative, for the benefit of the surviving widow or husband and children of such employee; and, if none, then of such employee’s parents; and, if none, then of the next of kin dependent upon such employee, for such injury or death resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents, or employees of such carrier, or by reason of any defect or insufficiency, due to its negligence, in its cars, engines, appliances, machinery, track, roadbed, works, boats, wharves, or other equipment.
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(Apr. 22, 1908, ch. 149, § 2, 35 Stat. 65.)
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