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Willard Vs. Tayloe

Court : US Supreme Court

..... a legal tender for private debts, nor whether, if constitutional, the provision is to be limited in its application to contracts made subsequent to the passage of the act. [ footnote 10 ] these questions are the subject of special consideration in other cases, and their solution is not required for the determination of the case before us ..... private debts. although the contract in this case was not completed until the proposition of the defendant was accepted in april, 1864, after the passage of the act of congress making notes of the united states a legal tender for private debts, yet as the proposition containing the terms of the contract was previously made, ..... and provided for, thus subjecting the defendant to risk and expense in making a new investment. the answer concluded with an allegation, that "by the great national acts and events which had occurred when the complainant filed his bill, and which were still influencing all values and interests in the country, such a state of things .....

In Re: Banks and Fenwick

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : 45Ind.Cas.113

..... courts established by royal charter, they would have no power to exercise such a jurisdiction as i mentioned before, as the administration has oarefully withdrawn all such power--act xxv of 1861, section 1863.78. no court except those established by royal charter has any jurisdiction, and when so established it has only that power to a similar extent of rs ..... that they could not interfere in such a matter, yet reduced the amount of fine from 150 to 60, not as an appeal court, but as a mere matter of finance, i looked into mcdermott's case (1866) 1 p.c. 260 : 4 moor. p.c. (n.s.) 110 : 17 w.r. 352 : 16 e.r. 258 before passing sentence ..... opinions against the judgment which has overthrown them. yet, surely, that cannot be defamation, though perhaps erroneous and not fulfilling such demands as 'care and attention.' surely the 52nd section does not say that good faith must be applied in forming opinions, but only in expressing such opinions. of course, if a man has no opinion, if he knows nothing .....

Henderson's Tobacco

Court : US Supreme Court

..... proviso to the 25th section of the act of 1867, which the claimants have pleaded, is any protection to them. it follows that the judgment of the circuit court dismissing the information must be reversed ..... be made. passive violations of law, mere neglect, may have been regarded less culpable than active transgression. all the causes of forfeiture enumerated in the sixty-ninth section of the act of 1868, upon which all the counts in the information are based, are of the latter character. we cannot hold, therefore, that the limitation of the ..... circuit or district court of the united states for the district where such seizure is made, or in any other court of competent jurisdiction." the 9th section of the same act enacted that "all proceedings relating to forfeiture and sale of distilled spirits shall apply to tobacco, snuff, and cigars." in answer to this, it was .....

Legal Tender Cases

Court : US Supreme Court

..... pretty rapid succession, adopted the new system established by congress both as to the money unit and the money of account. virginia, december 19, 1792, reenacted that section in the act of congress without any material alteration, and new hampshire, on the 20th of february, 1794, passed a similar law. [ footnote 4/11 ] massachusetts adopted the same ..... to grant all warrants for moneys to be issued from the treasury, in pursuance of appropriations by law, and to perform all such services relative to the finances as he shall be directed to perform. moneys collected from duties of tonnage and from import duties constituted at that period the entire resources of the national treasury, ..... the same time to withhold from congress, as well as from the states, the power to substitute any other money as a standard of value in matters of finance, business, trade, or commerce. support to that view may also be drawn from the last words of the clause giving congress the unrestricted power to regulate the .....

Marsh Vs. Fulton County

Court : US Supreme Court

..... allowed to him by the board in settlement. the records of the board, held on the 15th of september, 1857, showed the adoption of a report of the finance committee, estimating the amount required to pay the interest on county bonds, "issued and to be issued" that year, including county expenses and interest on railroad bonds, ..... the county, they could not ratify a subscription to the company already made without such authorization. in 1849, the legislature of the state of illinois passed an act which provided that whenever the citizens of any city or county in that state were desirous that such city or county should subscribe for stock in any railroad company ..... the legislature of illinois and authorized to construct a railroad from warsaw, on the mississippi river, to the east line of the state. in february, 1857, an act was passed by that legislature amending the charter of the company by which the line of the railroad was divided into three divisions, designated as the western, the central .....

Baltimore Vs. Baltimore Railroad

Court : US Supreme Court

..... payable quarterly, on the first days of certain months named. an ordinance was accordingly passed by the city authorizing the loan. it directed that the commissioners of finance of the city should issue certificates of city debt, or bonds, which they themselves were to sell, not however below par, and pay the proceeds of ..... forth fully and specifically the grounds of objection to the demand, "in view," as the protest declared, "of attempting to recover it under the provisions of the act of congress in this connection" -- provisions which, when protest is properly made, authorized recovery from the government if the tax have been illegally exacted. having thus paid ..... all sums due for interest by railroad companies, which sum it required the companies to withhold from their creditors and pay to the government, making, by a subsequent act -- one of june, 1864 -- such payment a discharge, in terms, from their creditors for the amount, "except where the companies might have contracted otherwise." .....

United States Vs. Powell

Court : US Supreme Court

..... all doubt, therefore, the internal revenue bonded warehouse referred to in the joint resolution includes the bonded warehouse known as the distillery warehouse described in the fifteenth section of the act imposing taxes on distilled spirits. [ footnote 5 ] 4. suppose that it is so, still it is contended by the defendants that they are not bound ..... the term for which the bond is given, whether enacted before or after its execution. 2. the "distillery warehouses," which distillers are required by the 15th section of the same act to provide, situated on their distillery premises, are "bonded warehouses," within the meaning of the joint resolution of congress of march 29, 1869, which declares ..... (14 wall.) 493 error to the circuit court for the middle district of tennessee syllabus l. on a distiller's bond given under the 7th section of the internal revenue act of july 20, 1868, 15 stat. at large 128, conditioned that the obligors "shall in all respects comply with all the provisions of law in .....

Toof Vs. Martin

Court : US Supreme Court

..... property or any part of it, to one creditor, and thus prevent an equal distribution among all his creditors is a transfer in fraud of the bankrupt act. the 35th section of the bankrupt act of 1867 thus enacts: "that if any person, being insolvent or in contemplation of insolvency, with a view to give a preference to any creditor ..... of the creditors is plainly shown. chetlain, one of the bankrupts, testifies that previous to the execution of the conveyances, he had several conversations with mahan respecting their finances, and told him the amount or near the amount of their indebtedness, and that they could not pay it. mahan advised them to get extensions, and said that ..... as they came due; that previous to this time, they had contemplated bankruptcy, and that he had had several conversations with mr. f. m. mahan relative to their finances, and had told him the amount, or near the amount, of their debts. his advice was to get extensions, and he would help them get through; that after .....

Slaughterhouse Cases

Court : US Supreme Court

..... and page 83 u. s. 39 every violation, the same to be recoverable, with costs of suit, before any court of competent jurisdiction." the second section of the act created one sauger and sixteen other person named, a corporation, with the usual privileges of a corporation, and including power to appoint officers and fix their ..... has a profound significance and consequence. what, then, are the privileges and immunities which are secured against abridgment by state legislation? in the first section of the civil rights act, congress has given its interpretation to these terms, or at least has stated some of the rights which, in its judgment, these terms include; ..... and exclusive privilege of conducting and carrying on the livestock, landing, and slaughterhouse business within the limits and privileges granted by the provisions of the act." and in the fourth section, the language is that, after the first of june, 1869, the company shall have "the exclusive privilege of having landed at their landing .....

United States Vs. Singer

Court : US Supreme Court

..... of the plaintiffs to the third amended plea of the defendants, which raised the question we have considered as to the proper construction of the twentieth section of the act of july, 1868. upon the second question presented, which relates to the liability of the defendants on the bond in suit to reimburse the united ..... assessed, be for a less quantity of spirits than eighty percentum of the producing capacity of the distillery as estimated under the provisions of this act." the 15th section of the same act required every distiller to provide a warehouse for the storage of spirits manufactured by him, and declared that such warehouse, when approved by the ..... -- that is, it is assessed equally upon all manufacturers of spirits wherever they are. the law establishes one rule for all distillers. 3. the 15th section of the act of congress of july 20, 1868, required every distiller to provide a warehouse for the storage of spirits manufactured by him and declared that such warehouse, when .....