Reports from the Court of Claims Submitted to the House of Representatives, Volume 2C. Wendell, printer, 1856 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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United States. Court of Claims. On the final hearing in the petition of Rhodes , et al . BRIEF OF UNITED STATES SOLICITOR . This is a claim for pay for constructing a road from Mobile to Pas- cagoula , under a contract with the Post ...
United States. Court of Claims. On the final hearing in the petition of Rhodes , et al . BRIEF OF UNITED STATES SOLICITOR . This is a claim for pay for constructing a road from Mobile to Pas- cagoula , under a contract with the Post ...
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United States. Court of Claims. Claims , in a certain cause now pending in the Court of Claims , on the petition of Thomas Rhodes and Jeremiah Austill : 1st Int . What is your name , occupation , age , and place of residence for the past ...
United States. Court of Claims. Claims , in a certain cause now pending in the Court of Claims , on the petition of Thomas Rhodes and Jeremiah Austill : 1st Int . What is your name , occupation , age , and place of residence for the past ...
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United States. Court of Claims. the department for the expenditure he had incurred in opening the road to Pascagoula bay , which the Postmaster General declined to pay , alleging that he had no authority to apply the revenues of the Post ...
United States. Court of Claims. the department for the expenditure he had incurred in opening the road to Pascagoula bay , which the Postmaster General declined to pay , alleging that he had no authority to apply the revenues of the Post ...
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United States. Court of Claims. Gayle : " The construction of the road was important to the public , as it shortened the distance of the most important southern route from New Orleans . It is probable that more was saved to the public by ...
United States. Court of Claims. Gayle : " The construction of the road was important to the public , as it shortened the distance of the most important southern route from New Orleans . It is probable that more was saved to the public by ...
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United States. Court of Claims. legal rates in California on those expenses , as the withholding of the money justly due by the government was a great injury to them . Your petitioners state , that in the early part of the 1st session of ...
United States. Court of Claims. legal rates in California on those expenses , as the withholding of the money justly due by the government was a great injury to them . Your petitioners state , that in the early part of the 1st session of ...
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Page 19 - Now if there be no lawful cause to obstruct the said marriage then the above obligation to be void, else to remain in full force and virtue.
Page 25 - But it lies for money paid by mistake, or upon a consideration which happens to fail, or for money got through imposition (express or implied), or extortion, or oppression, or an undue advantage taken of the plaintiff's situation, contrary to laws made for the protection of persons under those circumstances. In one word, the gist of this kind of action is, that the defendant, upon the circumstances of the case, is obliged by the ties of natural justice and equity to refund the money.
Page 20 - That it shall be lawful, under the special direction of the President of the United States, to make such advances to the disbursing officers of the government as may be necessary to the faithful and prompt discharge of their respective duties, and to the fulfillment of the public engagements...
Page 21 - ... but when the party by his own contract creates a duty or charge upon himself, he is bound to make it good, if he may, notwithstanding any accident by inevitable necessity, because he might have provided...
Page 49 - This kind of equitable action to recover back money, which ought not in justice to be kept, is very beneficial, and therefore much encouraged.
Page 27 - We must take this payment to have been made under a demand of right; and I think that where a man demands money of another as a matter of right, and that other, with a full knowledge of the facts upon which the demand is founded, has paid a sum, he never can recover back the sum he has so voluntarily paid.
Page 23 - Treasury to refund any duties paid under protest, nor shall any action be maintained against any collector, to recover the amount of duties so paid under protest, unless the said protest was made in writing and signed by the claimant, at or before the payment of said duties, setting forth distinctly and specifically the grounds of objection to the payment thereof.
Page 17 - ... nothing has been, on my part, nor to my knowledge, on the part of any other person, concealed or suppressed, whereby the United States may be defrauded of any part of the duty lawfully due on the said goods, wares, and merchandise...
Page 18 - Purposes," there to be kept with due and reasonable care, at the charge and risk of the owner, importer, consignee, or agent, and subject at all times to their order, upon payment of the proper duties and expenses, to be ascertained on due entry thereof for warehousing, and to be secured by a bond of the owner, importer, or consignee, with surety or sureties, to the satisfaction of the collector, in double the amount of the said duties, and in such form as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe...