United States Reports: Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, December Term, 1868, Volume 7W.H. & O.H. Morrison, 1869 - 780 pages |
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... purchase of supplies or procuring of ser- vice , " borrowing money ? " According to ordinary under- standing it certainly is not . The term in use at the time , which would have come nearest to a description of these certificates , is ...
... purchase of supplies or procuring of ser- vice , " borrowing money ? " According to ordinary under- standing it certainly is not . The term in use at the time , which would have come nearest to a description of these certificates , is ...
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... purchase of commodities on credit are the same thing . Now , cases de- cide that the government's contract for the loan of money , or for the services of men , is exempt . Can any reason be shown why a contract for the purchase of ...
... purchase of commodities on credit are the same thing . Now , cases de- cide that the government's contract for the loan of money , or for the services of men , is exempt . Can any reason be shown why a contract for the purchase of ...
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... purchase for a commercial purpose by a neutral , in his own home port , of a ship of war of a belligerent that had fled to such port in order to escape from enemy vessels in pursuit , but which was bonâ fide dismantled prior to the sale ...
... purchase for a commercial purpose by a neutral , in his own home port , of a ship of war of a belligerent that had fled to such port in order to escape from enemy vessels in pursuit , but which was bonâ fide dismantled prior to the sale ...
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... purchases from one of two belligerents , in good faith and for commercial purposes , in his own home port , a vessel lying there , which had been used by such belligerent as a * Paper of Sir William Scott and Sir John Nicholl ...
... purchases from one of two belligerents , in good faith and for commercial purposes , in his own home port , a vessel lying there , which had been used by such belligerent as a * Paper of Sir William Scott and Sir John Nicholl ...
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... purchase of the enemy's merchant ships by a neutral , even where the purchase and transfer have been effected in the enemy's port , under blockade , has been fully recognized . * Can this case be distinguished in principle ? We think ...
... purchase of the enemy's merchant ships by a neutral , even where the purchase and transfer have been effected in the enemy's port , under blockade , has been fully recognized . * Can this case be distinguished in principle ? We think ...
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Page 134 - Concurrent with the Court of Claims, of all claims not exceeding ten thousand dollars founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, or upon any regulation of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States...
Page 32 - July 14, 1890, are legal tender for all debts, public and private, except where otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract. United States notes are legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt.
Page 382 - States authorizes the supreme court " to issue writs of mandamus, in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law, to any courts appointed, or persons holding office, under the authority of the United States.
Page 653 - Every mortgage, or conveyance intended to operate as a mortgage of goods and chattels, hereafter made, which shall not be accompanied by an immediate delivery, and be followed by an actual and continued change of possession of the things mortgaged, shall be absolutely void as against the creditors of the mortgagor and as against subsequent purchasers and mortgagees in good faith, unless the mortgage, or a true copy thereof, shall be filed as directed in this section.
Page 391 - States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege or exemption specially set up or claimed by either party, under such clause of the said Constitution, treaty, statute or commission, may be re-examined and reversed or affirmed in the supreme Court of the United States...
Page 507 - That every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful by any statute is a void contract, though the statute itself doth not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender, because a penalty implies a prohibition, though there are no prohibitory words in the statute...
Page 706 - A state, in the ordinary sense of the Constitution, is a political community of free citizens, occupying a territory of defined boundaries, and organized under a government sanctioned and limited by a written constitution, and established by the consent of the governed.
Page 436 - If the remedy at law . is sufficient, equity cannot give relief, "but it is not enough that * there is a remedy at law; it must be plain and adequate, or. in other words, as practical and efficient to the ends of justice, and its prompt administration, as the remedy in equity.
Page 706 - Not only therefore can there be no loss of separate and independent autonomy to the States, through their union under the Constitution, but it may be not unreasonably said that the preservation of the States, and the maintenance of their governments, are as much within the design and care of the Constitution as the preservation of the Union and the maintenance of the National government. The Constitution, in all of its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States.
Page 653 - No bill of sale, mortgage, hypothecation, or conveyance of any vessel, or part of any vessel, of the United States, shall be valid against any person other than the grantor or mortgagor, his heirs and devisees, and persons having actual notice thereof, unless such bill of sale, mortgage, hypothecation, or conveyance is recorded in the office of the collector of the customs where such vessel is registered or enrolled.