Cases Decided in the Court of Claims of the United States at the ... with the Rules of Practice and the Acts of Congress Relating to the Court, Volume 20W.H. & O.H. Morrison, 1885 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... contract , the circumstances upon which the claimant relies to prove a contract must be specified . If it consist of several matters or items , each must be separately stated . Contracts , how stated . Agent verify- have power of at ...
... contract , the circumstances upon which the claimant relies to prove a contract must be specified . If it consist of several matters or items , each must be separately stated . Contracts , how stated . Agent verify- have power of at ...
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... contract in the Returns Office of the Department of the Interior , as soon after the contract is made as possible , and within thirty days , together with all bids , offers , and proposals to him made by persons to obtain the same , and ...
... contract in the Returns Office of the Department of the Interior , as soon after the contract is made as possible , and within thirty days , together with all bids , offers , and proposals to him made by persons to obtain the same , and ...
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... Contract for stone . CARDINAL MATCH COMPANY ( no opinion ) 541 CARROLL , ANNA ELLA ... 426 Plans of campaign , compensation for . CARTER , SAMUEL P. ( no opinion ) . 544 CENTAUR COMPANY ( no opinion ) . 558 CENTRAL NATIONAL BANK OF ...
... Contract for stone . CARDINAL MATCH COMPANY ( no opinion ) 541 CARROLL , ANNA ELLA ... 426 Plans of campaign , compensation for . CARTER , SAMUEL P. ( no opinion ) . 544 CENTAUR COMPANY ( no opinion ) . 558 CENTRAL NATIONAL BANK OF ...
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... contract . CURTIS , JEREMIAH , & SON ( no opinion ) 550 CURTIS & BROWN MANUFACTURING COMPANY ( no opinion ) 549 CUTHBERT , DAVID H. , RECEIVER ( no opinion ) ... 555 CUTHBERT , SARAH B. 172 .... Sale of realty for direct taxes . DAVIS ...
... contract . CURTIS , JEREMIAH , & SON ( no opinion ) 550 CURTIS & BROWN MANUFACTURING COMPANY ( no opinion ) 549 CUTHBERT , DAVID H. , RECEIVER ( no opinion ) ... 555 CUTHBERT , SARAH B. 172 .... Sale of realty for direct taxes . DAVIS ...
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... contract . MORGAN , J. S. , & Co .... 533 Supreme Court reversing judgment , 19 C. Cls . R. , 386 . MORGAN , J. S. ... Contract ; District of Columbia . Page . OTIS , GEORGE K 315 Mail contract . XCVI TABLE OF CASES .
... contract . MORGAN , J. S. , & Co .... 533 Supreme Court reversing judgment , 19 C. Cls . R. , 386 . MORGAN , J. S. ... Contract ; District of Columbia . Page . OTIS , GEORGE K 315 Mail contract . XCVI TABLE OF CASES .
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Page l - ... after the allowance of such a claim, the ascertainment of the amount due, and the issuing of a warrant for the payment thereof. Such transfers, assignments, and powers of attorney, must recite the warrant for payment, and must be acknowledged by the person making them, before an officer having authority to take acknowledgments of deeds, and shall be certified by the officer ; and it must appear by the certificate that the officer, at the time of the acknowledgment, read and fully explained the...
Page 71 - An act [to amend an act entitled an act] to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Page 108 - Is it true, that this is the sense in which the word "necessary" is always used? Does it always import an absolute physical necessity, so strong, that one thing, to which another may be termed necessary cannot exist without that other?
Page 35 - An act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and for other purposes," approved July twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six.
Page xl - All claims founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, except for pensions, or upon any regulation of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States...
Page 498 - 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 xliv - States during such rebellion shall be required to prove affirmatively that such person did, during said rebellion, consistently adhere to the United States, and did give no aid or comfort to persons engaged in said...
Page 109 - We think it does not. If reference be had to its use in the common affairs of the world, or in approved authors, we find that it frequently imports no more than that one thing is convenient or useful or essential to another. To employ the means necessary to an end is generally understood as employing any means calculated to produce the end, and not as being confined to those single means, without which the end would be entirely unattainable.
Page xlii - That the claims of married women, first accrued during marriage, of persons under the age of twenty-one years, first accrued during minority, and of idiots, lunatics, insane persons, and persons beyond the seas at the time the claim accrued, entitled to the claim, shall not be barred if the...
Page 186 - ... court of claims, and the same shall be there proceeded in as if originally commenced by the voluntary action of the claimant...