Laws of the United States and Decisions of the Courts Relating to War Claims, Comp. by J.B. Holloway1914 - 248 pages |
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... insolvent Columbian stock insurance company , of New York ......... . 633 , 267 25,000 631 , 414 575 , 043 56 , 375 65 , 046 No speculative damages were allowed or given . To establish LAWS AND DECISIONS RELATING TO WAR CLAIMS . 9.
... insolvent Columbian stock insurance company , of New York ......... . 633 , 267 25,000 631 , 414 575 , 043 56 , 375 65 , 046 No speculative damages were allowed or given . To establish LAWS AND DECISIONS RELATING TO WAR CLAIMS . 9.
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United States. Congress. House. War Claims Committee. No speculative damages were allowed or given . To establish the just and true amount of these classes , and indeed of all classes of losses , Congress established the principle that ...
United States. Congress. House. War Claims Committee. No speculative damages were allowed or given . To establish the just and true amount of these classes , and indeed of all classes of losses , Congress established the principle that ...
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... allowed the necessary actual expenses of office - rent , furniture , fuel , stationery , and printing , and other necessary incidental expenses , to be certified by the presiding judge of said court , and to be audited and paid on ...
... allowed the necessary actual expenses of office - rent , furniture , fuel , stationery , and printing , and other necessary incidental expenses , to be certified by the presiding judge of said court , and to be audited and paid on ...
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... allowed for or in respect to unearned freights , gross freights , prospective Unearned profits , freights , gains , or advantages , or for wages of officers or seamen for a longer time than one year next after the breaking up of a ...
... allowed for or in respect to unearned freights , gross freights , prospective Unearned profits , freights , gains , or advantages , or for wages of officers or seamen for a longer time than one year next after the breaking up of a ...
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... allowed , at the rate of four per centum per annum upon the amount of actual loss or damage which shall be ascertained in each case to have been sustained , from such date as the court shall , in each case , decide that the loss was ...
... allowed , at the rate of four per centum per annum upon the amount of actual loss or damage which shall be ascertained in each case to have been sustained , from such date as the court shall , in each case , decide that the loss was ...
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Page 20 - Government ; and further engage that every such claim, whether or not the same may have been presented to the notice of, made, preferred, or laid before the said Commission, shall, from and after the conclusion of the proceedings of the said Commission, be considered and treated as finally settled, barred, and thenceforth inadmissible.
Page 15 - Her Majesty's Government, in order to evince its desire of strengthening the friendly relations between the two countries and of making satisfactory provision for the future, agrees that in deciding the questions between the two countries arising out of those claims, the Arbitrators should assume that Her Majesty's Government had undertaken to act upon the principles set forth in these rules.
Page 14 - First, to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming, or equipping, within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a Power with which it is at peace; and also to use like diligence to prevent the departure from its jurisdiction of any vessel intended to cruise or carry on war as above, such vessel having been specially adapted, in whole or in part, within such jurisdiction, to warlike use.
Page 26 - ... further until the expiration of two years after either of the high contracting parties shall have given notice to the other of its wish to terminate the same...
Page 14 - In deciding the matters submitted to the Arbitrators, they shall be governed by the following three rules, which are agreed upon by the high contracting parties as rules to be taken as applicable to the case...
Page 13 - ARTICLE III. The written or printed case of each of the two parties, accompanied by the documents, the official correspondence, and other evidence on which each relies, shall be delivered in duplicate to each of the arbitrators and to the agent of the other party as soon as may be after the organization of the tribunal, but within a period not exceeding six months from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty.
Page 17 - The high contracting parties agree that all claims on the part of corporations, companies, or private individuals, citizens of the United States...
Page 16 - The commissioners shall then forthwith proceed to the investigation of the claims which shall be presented to them. They shall 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 on behalf of the respective governments.
Page 22 - The Commissioners so named shall meet at Washington at the earliest convenient period after they have been respectively named ; and shall, before proceeding to any business, make and subscribe a solemn declaration, that they will impartially and carefully examine and decide, to the best of their judgment, and according to justice and equity...
Page 12 - Whereas differences have arisen between the Government of the United States and the Government of Her Britannic Majesty, and still exist, growing out of the acts committed by the several vessels which have given rise to the claims generically known as the