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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. § 55"
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description: "Contract, rule, regulation, or device exempting from liability; set-off"
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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: "55"
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citation: "45 U.S.C. § 55"
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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/s55"
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source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-45/usc45.xml"
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text_hash: "13daef4f7592f49725c6f6810ca14ed714f011471e9d9e3809e21f694e5a3430"
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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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# 45 U.S.C. § 55 - Contract, rule, regulation, or device exempting from liability; set-off
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## Text
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Any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever, the purpose or intent of which shall be to enable any common carrier to exempt itself from any liability created by this chapter, shall to that extent be void: Provided, That in any action brought against any such common carrier under or by virtue of any of the provisions of this chapter, such common carrier may set off therein any sum it has contributed or paid to any insurance, relief benefit, or indemnity that may have been paid to the injured employee or the person entitled thereto on account of the injury or death for which said action was brought.
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(Apr. 22, 1908, ch. 149, § 5, 35 Stat. 66.)
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