Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, Volume 32Banks Law Publishing, 1903 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... authority under any law to perform them . All the allowances , therefore , made to him for commissions on disbursements , as all his disburse- ments were such as ought to have been made by the commandant of the navy yard , were in ...
... authority under any law to perform them . All the allowances , therefore , made to him for commissions on disbursements , as all his disburse- ments were such as ought to have been made by the commandant of the navy yard , were in ...
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... authority , it is insisted , he can obtain compensation only by applica- tion to congress . An action of assumpsit has been brought by the government to recover from the defendant the exact sum , which , in equity , it is admitted he is ...
... authority , it is insisted , he can obtain compensation only by applica- tion to congress . An action of assumpsit has been brought by the government to recover from the defendant the exact sum , which , in equity , it is admitted he is ...
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... authority of a law , by a contract made by an officer or agent of the government , authorized to make the contract . Although service may have been rendered , and the government may be bound , in equity and good conscience , to allow a ...
... authority of a law , by a contract made by an officer or agent of the government , authorized to make the contract . Although service may have been rendered , and the government may be bound , in equity and good conscience , to allow a ...
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... authority to make the contract to bind the United States must be shown . * 23 Upon these principles , it was the duty of the defendant in error to have shown the provisions of the law , or the regulations of the war department ...
... authority to make the contract to bind the United States must be shown . * 23 Upon these principles , it was the duty of the defendant in error to have shown the provisions of the law , or the regulations of the war department ...
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... authority of the commissioners to appoint a secretary was not denied ; and this same author- ity must necessarily exist , to appoint agents and superintendents for the management of the business connected with the employment of the fund ...
... authority of the commissioners to appoint a secretary was not denied ; and this same author- ity must necessarily exist , to appoint agents and superintendents for the management of the business connected with the employment of the fund ...
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Page 93 - A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power intrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed.
Page 151 - The Constitution was ordained and established by the people of the United States for themselves, for their own government, and not for the government of the individual States. Each State established a constitution for itself, and in that constitution provided such limitations and restrictions on the powers of its particular government as its judgment dictated.
Page 54 - All the grants of land made before the 24th of January, 1818, by his Catholic Majesty, or by his lawful authorities in the said territories, ceded by his Majesty to the United States, shall be ratified and confirmed to the persons in possession of the lands, to the game extent that the same grants would be valid, if the territories had remained under the dominion of his Catholic Majesty.
Page 157 - These amendments contain no expression indicating an intention to apply them to the state governments. This court cannot so apply them.
Page 53 - His Catholic Majesty cedes to the United States, in full property and sovereignty, all the territories which belong to him, situated to the eastward of the Mississippi, known by the name of East and West Florida.
Page 419 - It may not be unworthy of remark that it is very unusual, even in cases of conquest, for the conqueror to do more than to displace the sovereign and assume dominion over the country. The modern usage of nations, which has become law, would be violated ; that sense of justice and of right which is acknowledged and felt by the whole civilized world would be outraged, if private property should be generally confiscated Dissenting Opinion : Shiras, Field, JJ. and private rights annulled.
Page 420 - Had Florida changed its sovereign by an act containing no stipulation respecting the property of individuals, the right of property in all those who became subjects or citizens of the new government would have been unaffected by the change.
Page 183 - The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor of carrying out his invention.
Page 63 - THIS cause came on to be heard, on the transcript of the record from the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana, and was argued by counsel : On consideration whereof, it is ordered and adjudged by this court, that the judgment of the said district court in this cause be and the same is hereby...
Page 30 - The modern usage of nations, which has become law, would be violated, that sense of justice and of right which is acknowledged and felt by the whole civilized world would be outraged, if private property should be generally confiscated, and private rights annulled. The people change their allegiance, their relation to their ancient sovereign is dissolved, but their relations to each other, and their rights of property, remain undisturbed.