Enemy Property in America: A Survey of the Trading with the Enemy Act, the Decisions of the Courts Under that Act, the Traditions and Policies of the United States Government with Regard to Enemy Property, Together with the Text of the Act Annotated, the Treaties of Peace with Germany and Austria, and Provisions of the Versailles Treaty Relating to Enemy Property |
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... congress in passing the act . 57 8. Senate committee favored use without confiscation 9. Our historic policy .... 59 61 10. United States - Prussian treaty .... 66 11. Enemy property as security for American claims ? 12. Taxes on the ...
... congress in passing the act . 57 8. Senate committee favored use without confiscation 9. Our historic policy .... 59 61 10. United States - Prussian treaty .... 66 11. Enemy property as security for American claims ? 12. Taxes on the ...
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... Congress . The question of the propriety of any bill depends upon the intention of Congress in passing the law , expressions of State Department officials and others on the subject , the traditions and history of the United States in ...
... Congress . The question of the propriety of any bill depends upon the intention of Congress in passing the law , expressions of State Department officials and others on the subject , the traditions and history of the United States in ...
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... Congress , was that of conservation of enemy property with proper safeguards to protect this property and to avoid injustice to American citizens . Thereafter , the powers of the Alien Property Custodian were gradually widened by ...
... Congress , was that of conservation of enemy property with proper safeguards to protect this property and to avoid injustice to American citizens . Thereafter , the powers of the Alien Property Custodian were gradually widened by ...
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... officer or officers as he might select . It has been contended that the powers vested in the President by Congress could not be delegated to another . The Act provided for a determination by the President in 18 ENEMY PROPERTY IN AMERICA .
... officer or officers as he might select . It has been contended that the powers vested in the President by Congress could not be delegated to another . The Act provided for a determination by the President in 18 ENEMY PROPERTY IN AMERICA .
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... Congress and that in order to make it workable , the strong hand of the government was entitled to seize , so long as some recourse or legal method for the return was pro- vided . It was further held that a determination by the Alien ...
... Congress and that in order to make it workable , the strong hand of the government was entitled to seize , so long as some recourse or legal method for the return was pro- vided . It was further held that a determination by the Alien ...
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alien enemy Alien Prop Alien Property Cus Alien Property Custodian Allied or Associated ally of enemy amendment American citizens American claims amount application arose Article assigned Associated Powers Austria Austria-Hungary Bank Chemical Foundation citizen or subject claimant Clearing Office Committee confiscation Congress contract corporation court held creditor debt debtor declared decree defendant demand DISTRICT COURT Enemy Act enemy insurance enemy or ally enemy property entitled equity erty Custodian exchange filed Garvan German Government German property hereunder Hungary insurance companies international law Joseph Kohn July license ment Miller Misc N. Y. Supp November 11 owner paid paragraph parties partnership patent payment person plaintiff present Treaty President proclamation property held question reinsurance section 9 seized seizure subd suit territory thereof tion todian Trading transferred Treaty of Peace Treaty of St treaty of Versailles trust United UNITED STATES DISTRICT unreported Versailles Versailles Treaty
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Page 330 - Court of the District of Columbia, or in the district court of the United States for the district in which such claimant resides, or, if a corporation, where it has its principal place of business...
Page 269 - Government, or its agents, since July 31, 1914, loss, damage, or Injury to their persons or property, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of shares of stock in German, Austro-Hungarian, American, or other corporations, or in consequence of hostilities or of any operations of war, or otherwise...
Page 79 - ... nation with which the United States is at war, or resident outside the United States and doing business within such territory...
Page 292 - Subject to any contrary stipulations which may be provided for in the present Treaty, the Allied and Associated Powers reserve the right to retain and liquidate all property, rights and interests belonging at the date of the coming into force of the present Treaty to German nationals, or companies controlled by them, within their territories, colonies, possessions and protectorates, including territories ceded to them by the present Treaty.
Page 122 - Commerce, to refuse clearance to any such vessel, domestic or foreign, for which clearance is required by law, and by formal notice served upon the owners, master, or person or persons in command or charge of any domestic vessel for which clearance is not required by law, to forbid the departure of such vessel from the port, and it shall thereupon be unlawful for such vessel to depart.
Page 125 - March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States...
Page 99 - ... no person shall be held liable in any court for or in respect to anything done or omitted in...
Page 107 - States desiring to manufacture or cause to be manufactured, a machine, manufacture, composition of matter, or design, or to carry on, or...
Page 363 - That war gives to the sovereign full right to take the persons and confiscate the property of the enemy wherever found, is conceded. The mitigations of this rigid rule, which the humane and wise policy of modern times has introduced into practice, will more or less affect the exercise of this right, but cannot impair the right itself.
Page 104 - ... order the payment, conveyance, transfer, assignment or delivery to said claimant of the money or other property so held by the alien property custodian or by the Treasurer of the United States or of the interest therein to which the President shall determine said claimant is entitled.