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1st Session 59th Congress action Agent Alaska amount Annex apply Article belligerent bill Britain Britannic Majesty's Government British Memorial Canadian cargo CHARLES FITZPATRICK charter Chief Quartermaster citizens claimant CLAIMS ARBITRATION collision compensation contract Court of Claims Cuba damages defendant demurrage Department destruction discharging Eagle City enemy enemy's entitled equity fact foreign Fort Egbert Gosselin Hardman houses HURST injuries interest international law July June Juragua Iron Company King Robert letter liability Lindisfarne logs loss Majesty's Government Manila March matter McCall ment Messrs military authorities military necessity O. N. Ramsey occupied owner paid party payment person plaintiff port President principles of international question referred repairs Respectfully rule Secretary Senate Document ship Siboney Sivewright steamship Eastry submitted taken territory tion Treaty trespass Tribunal troops United States Army United States Government United States Reports vessel War Department Washington yellow fever
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Page 18 - 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 6 - wilfully," however, in that rule we must understand, if not that the party represents that to be true which he knows to be untrue, at least that he means his representation to be acted upon and that it is acted upon accordingly; and if whatever a man's real intention may be he so conducts himself that a reasonable man would take the representation to be true, and believe that it was meant that he should act upon it, and did act upon it as true, the party making the representation would be equally...
Page 18 - 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 9 - America, and the said , for , heirs, executors, and administrators, have mutually agreed, and by these presents do mutually covenant and agree, to and with each...
Page 45 - Differences which may arise of a legal nature, or relating to the interpretation of Treaties existing between the two Contracting Parties, and which it may not have been possible to settle by diplomacy...
Page 33 - But we are clearly of opinion, that in all of these cases, the danger must be immediate and impending; or the necessity urgent for the public service, such as will not admit of delay, and where the action of the civil authority would be too late in providing the means which the occasion calls for.
Page 88 - The authority of the legitimate power having in fact passed into the hands of the occupant, the latter shall take all the measures in his power to restore, and ensure, as far as possible, public order and safety, while respecting, unless absolutely prevented, the laws in force in the country.
Page 56 - Affairs, and that there shall be a principal officer therein, to be called the Secretary for the Department of Foreign Affairs, who shall perform and execute such duties as shall from time to time be enjoined on or intrusted to him by the President of the United States...
Page 50 - Equity is a roguish thing : for law we have a measure, know what to trust to ; equity is according to the conscience of him that is chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. "Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot...
Page 4 - Military necessity, as understood by modern civilized nations, consists in the necessity of those measures which are indispensable for securing the ends of the war, and which are lawful according to the modern law and usages of war.