contractual liability
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From 285 U.S. 434 - Combes v. Getz · 1932Most cited · 348 citing opinions
His cause of action was not purely statutory. It did not arise upon the constitutional rule of law, but upon the contractual liability created in pursuance of the rule. Although the latter derived its being from the former, it immediately acquired an independent existence competent to survive the destruction of the provision which gave it birth.