10 U.S.C. § 1219
Section 1219 · Statement of origin of disease or injury: limitations
Amended 2 times on record
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Mariner v. United States (1983)
Most recently applied in Rose v. Nicholson (August 2007)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
A member of an armed force may not be required to sign a statement relating to the origin, incurrence, or aggravation of a disease or injury that he has. Any such statement against his interests, signed by a member, is invalid.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Historical and Revision Notes
1962 Act
Sections 1218 and 1219 are restated, without substantive change, to conform to the style adopted for title 10.
Amendments
1962—Pub. L. 87–651 substituted “Statement of origin of disease or injury: limitation” for “Statement against interest void” in section catchline, and “A member of an armed force may not be required to sign a statement relating to the origin, incurrence, or aggravation of a disease or injury that he has. Any such statement against his interests, signed by a member, is invalid” for “No person in the Armed Forces may be required to sign a statement of any nature relating to the origin, incurrence, or aggravation of any disease or injury he may have. Any such statement against his own interest, whenever signed, is of no force and effect.”
Effective Date
Section effective Jan. 1, 1958, see section 2301 of Pub. L. 85–56, 71 Stat. 172.