Digest of Legal Opinions, Volume 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1926 |
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accrued allowance amended amount application April August 9 authority award beneficiary benefits Board of Appeals bureau hospital certificate Citing claims and rating committee on recoveries Common-law marriage Comp Comptroller condition contract court court-martial death deceased decision director discontinued disease Effective date entitled to compensation evidence examination expenses fact filed furnished Further held G. C. to Dir Government guardian honorably discharged injury insane January July June 30 lapse medical officers ment mental military misconduct months overpayment paid paragraph patient payable payment of compensation period permanent and total person physician premiums presumption prior to June provisions of section question rating board receipt received regulation rehabilitation reimbursement reinstatement requested result retroactive risk insurance act section 202 service connection Spanish-American War statute subsequent temporary total term insurance tion total disability treatment unauthorized United States Veterans vocational rehabilitation act waived war risk insurance wife World War veterans
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Page 223 - ... period without having in force at time of incurrence of such disability at least $5,000 insurance issued under the War Risk Insurance Act, as amended, or the World War Veterans' Act, 1924, as amended, or this Act, shall be deemed to have applied for and to have been granted, effective as of the commencement of such total disability, national service life insurance in an amount which together with any such insurance then in force shall aggregate...
Page 98 - ... officer in any branch of the public service, or any other person whose salary, pay, or emoluments are fixed by law or regulations, shall receive any additional pay, extra allowance, or compensation in any form whatever for the disbursement of public money, or for any other service or duty whatever, unless the same is authorized by law, and the appropriation therefor explicitly states that it is for such additional pay, extra allowance, or compensation...
Page 248 - July 2, 1921, is discharged or resigns, shall be conclusively held and taken to have been in sound condition when examined, accepted, and enrolled for service...
Page 259 - Law 85-857 as to both service connection and rate of compensation, so long as the conditions warranting such status and rate continue. Any disability so service connected may be evaluated under the Schedule...
Page 129 - To a claimant or his duly authorized representative, as to matters concerning himself alone, when in the judgment of the director such disclosure would not be injurious to the physical or mental health of the claimant...
Page 139 - In all other cases where copies of documents or records are desired by or on behalf of parties to a suit, whether in a court of the United States or any other, such copies shall be furnished as provided in paragraph (d) of this section; otherwise to the court only, and on an order of the court or subpoena duces tecum addressed to the Administrator of Veterans Affairs or the head of the field station in which the records desired are located requesting the same.
Page 38 - ... unless the decision is wholly unsupported by the evidence, or is wholly dependent upon a question of law, or is seen to be clearly arbitrary or capricious.
Page 2 - We know of no definition of the word 'liability,' either given in the dictionaries or as used in the common speech of men, which restricts it to such as are absolute, or excludes the idea of contingency. In fact, it is more frequently used in the latter sense than in the former, as when we speak of the liability of an insurer or a common carrier, or the liability to accidents or to errors; and in Webster's Dictionary the word 'liable...
Page 2 - Liability is responsibility; the state of one who is bound in law and justice, to do something which may be enforced by action.