The Geneva Award Acts: With Notes, and References to Decisions of the Court of Commissioners of Alabama ClaimsLittle, Brown,, 1882 - 207 pages |
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Page 184 - February, May, August, and November, in each year. The principal and interest are exempt from the payment of all TAXES or DUTIES of the UNITED STATES, as well as from Taxation in any form, by or under State, Municipal or Local authority.
Page 57 - whereas prospective earnings cannot properly be made the subject of compensation, inasmuch as they depend in their nature upon future and uncertain contingencies, the tribunal is unanimously of opinion that there is no ground for awarding to the United States any sum by way of indemnity under this head.
Page 74 - no officer in the military or naval service shall, in time of peace, be dismissed from service except upon and in pursuance of the sentence of a court-martial to that effect, or in commutation thereof,
Page 1 - An act for the creation of a court for the adjudication and disposition of certain moneys received into the Treasury under an award made by the tribunal of arbitration constituted by virtue of the first article of the treaty concluded at Washington the eighth of May, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-one, between the United States of America and
Page 134 - it is hereby, authorized to publish notice of its sessions, and to make all needful rules and regulations not contravening the laws of the United States or the provisions of this act, for regulating the forms and mode of procedure before the said court, and for carrying into full and complete effect the provisions of
Page 26 - I have the honor to inform your lordship of the directions which I have received from my Government to solicit redress for the national and private injuries already thus sustained, as well as a more effective prevention of any repetition of such lawless and injurious proceedings in her Majesty's ports hereafter.
Page 69 - I know of no foundation for the right of underwriters, except the well-known principle of law that where one person has agreed to indemnify another he will, on making good the indemnity, be entitled to succeed to all the ways and means by which the person indemnified might have protected himself against or reimbursed himself for the loss.
Page 3 - investigate and decide such claims in such order and in such manner as they may think proper, but upon such evidence or information only as shall be furnished by, or in behalf of
Page 138 - or allowed by said court arising in favor of any person not entitled, at the time of his loss, to the protection of the United States in the premises, nor arising in favor of any person who did not at all times during the late rebellion bear true allegiance to the United States.
Page 69 - In all cases in which the subject is not actually annihilated, the assured is entitled to claim, and claiming as upon a total loss, must give up to the underwriters all the remains of the property recovered, together with all benefit and advantage belonging or incident to it; or, rather, such property vests in the underwriters.