 | United States. Court of Claims - Law reports, digests, etc - 1856 - 656 pages
...officer, become a party to negotiable paper, they have all the rights and incur all the responsibility of individuals who are parties to such instruments. There is no difference, except that the United States cannot be sued. United States vs. The Bank of the Metropolis, 15 Peters'... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1856 - 594 pages
...officer, become a party to negotiable paper, they have all the rights and incur all the responsibility of individuals who are parties to such instruments. There is no difference, except that the United States cannot be sued. (United States vs. The Bank of the Metropolis, 15 Peters... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - Law reports, digests, etc - 1936 - 940 pages
...vain promise, a pledge having no other sanction than the pleasure and convenience of the pledger. 6. When the United States, with constitutional authority,...of individuals who are parties to such instruments. 7. The right to make binding obligations is a power of sovereignty. 8. The sovereignty of the United... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 1288 pages
...officer, become a party lo negotiable paper, they have all the rights, and incur all the responsibility, of individuals who are parties to such instruments; there is no difference, except that the United States cannot be sued ; and from the unavoidable use of commercial paper by... | |
 | United States. Department of Justice - Administrative law - 1891 - 808 pages
...production of material new testimony." (7 Opin., 701.) The same doctrine is laid down by the Supreme Court in United States v. Bank of the Metropolis. (15 Pet., 377, 401.) In a word, my opinion is that the Union Hi ver Logging Company and its officers are responsible... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 1242 pages
...officer, become a party to negotiable paper, they have all the rights, and incur all the responsibility, of individuals who are parties to such instruments; there is no difference, except that the United States 12 L. ed. cannot be sued; and from the unavoidable use of commercial... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency - 1935 - 100 pages
...that term implies, as it would be if the repudiator had been a State or a municipality or a citizen." When the United States, with constitutional authority,...difference, said the Court in United States v. Bank of Metropolis (15 Peters 377, 392), except that the United States cannot be sued without its consent.... | |
 | United States - Military law - 1940 - 1208 pages
...itself. Alliance Construction Co. e. US (1934), 79 Ct d. 730. Rights and liabilities of Government.— When the United States, with constitutional authority, makes contracts, It has rights ant1, incurs liabilities similar to those of individuals who are parties to such Instrument!!. Banister... | |
 | United States - Judge advocates - 1940 - 1240 pages
...Itself. Alliance Construction Co. v. US (1934), 79 Ct. Cl. 730. Bights and liabilities of Government, — When the United States, with constitutional authority, makes contracts, it has rights anil incurs liabilities similar to those of individuals who are parties to such Instruments. nnnistiT... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. District of Columbia - 1959 - 310 pages
...Court has given no sanction to such a conception of the obligations of Government." *»•»«•• "When the United States, with constitutional authority,...States v. Bank of the Metropolis (15 Pet. 377, 392, 10 L. Ed. 774, 779), except that the United States cannot be sued without its consent." ( See also... | |
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When the United States, with constitutional authority, makes contracts, it has rights and incurs responsibilities similar to those of individuals who are parties to such instruments. There is no difference, said the Court in United States v. Bank of Metropolis,... 
