---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 1111"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "1111"
heading: "Presumption of sound condition"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/1111"
units:
  - "Part II — General Benefits"
  - "Chapter 11 — Compensation for Service-Connected Disability or Death"
  - "Subchapter II — Wartime Disability Compensation"
---

# §1111. Presumption of sound condition


For the purposes of [section 1110 of this title](/usc/38/1110.md), every [veteran](/usc/38/1101.md?p=1) shall be taken to have been in sound condition when examined, accepted, and enrolled for service, except as to defects, infirmities, or disorders noted at the time of the examination, acceptance, and enrollment, or where clear and unmistakable evidence demonstrates that the injury or disease existed before acceptance and enrollment and was not aggravated by such service.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 85–857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1119, § 311; renumbered § 1111 and amended Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), (c)(1), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 406.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1991—Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), renumbered section 311 of this title as this section.

Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(c)(1), substituted “1110” for “310”.