 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 720 pages
...laws. We have repeatedly held that pensions are in the nature of bounties of the government, which it has the right to give, withhold, distribute or recall, at its discretion ; that the pensioner has no vested right in a pension, and the legislature has full power to enact... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - Law reports, digests, etc - 1934 - 914 pages
...compensation for injuries received in line of duty, like " Pensions are bounties of the Government, which Congress has the right to give, withhold, distribute, or recall, at its discretion." Walton v. Cotton, 19 How. 355; United States v. Teller, 107 US 64, 68. All are gratuities bestowed... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 1674 pages
...No pensioner has a vested legal right to his pension. Pensions are the bounties of the government, which congress has the right to give, withhold, distribute, or recall, at its discretion. Walton v. Cotton, 19 How. 355. Therefore, the contention of the relator, that having received the pension... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 890 pages
...No pensioner has a vested legal right to his pension. Pensions are the bounties of the government, which Congress has the right to give, withhold, distribute, or recall, at its discretion. Walton v. Cotton, 19 How. 355. Therefore, the contention of the relator that, having received the pension... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 712 pages
...No pensioner has a vested legal right to his pension. Pensions are the bounties of the government, which Congress has the right to give, withhold, distribute, or recall, at its discretion. (US v. Teller, 107 USR, 68; Walter v. Cotter, 19 How., 358.) The distinction between a pension certificate... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 1118 pages
...[2] We have repeatedly held that pensions are In the nature of bounties of the government, which it has the right to give, withhold, distribute, or recall, at its discretion; that the pensioner has no vested right in a pension, and the Legislature has full power to enact such... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 1086 pages
...No pensioner has a vested legal right to his pension. Pensions are the bounties of the Government, which Congress has the right to give, withhold, distribute or recall, at ita discretion. * 3. One who voluntarily surrendered his pension under a special Act, in order to receive... | |
 | United States. Pension Bureau - 1893 - 400 pages
..." No pensioner has a vested legal right to his pension. Pensions are the bounties of the Government which Congress has the right to give, withhold, distribute, or recall at its discretion." Xo title passes by the admission of an applicant to tho pension roll, as in case of a patent to land,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1895 - 760 pages
...No pensioner has a vested legal right to his pension. Pensions are the bounties of the government, which Congress has the right to give, withhold, distribute, or recall, at its discretion. Walton v. Cotton, 19 How. 355." United States v. Teller, 107 US 64, 68. Congress being at liberty to... | |
 | United States. Department of the Interior - Bounties, Military - 1897 - 614 pages
...said: No pensioner has a vested legal right to his pension. Pensions are bounties of the Government which Congress has the right to give, withhold, distribute, or recall at its discretion. The act of March 2, 1895, operates to take away authority theretofore existing in the Secretary of the... | |
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No pensioner has a vested legal right to his pension. Pensions are the bounties of the government, which congress has the right to give, withhold, distribute, or recall, at its discretion. 
