| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 616 pages
...The present rebellion is the first occasion when it has been deemed necessary to make the treasury notes of the United States a legal tender in payment of debts due to private persons. The increased exigencies of business, enlarged and changed by the war, have... | |
| Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1865 - 630 pages
...stockholders (Id). 5. The net of Congress passed February 25, 1862 (ch. 33), making certain treaMiry notes of the United States a legal tender in payment of debts between private persons, is constitutional and valid (Melropoli'an llank agt. Van Dydc, 27 A", y. K.... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 746 pages
...opinions. — Opinion of Field, J. What I have heretofore said respecting the power of Congress to make the notes of the United States a legal tender in payment of debts contracted previous to the act of 1862, and to interfere with contracts, has had reference to debts... | |
| New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 672 pages
...the legislature, id 5. The act of Congress passed February 25, 1862 (ch. 33), making certain treasury notes of the United States a legal tender in payment of debts between private persons, is constitutional and valid. Metropolitan Bank v. Van Dyck, 400 6. The power... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Greenbacks - 1872 - 192 pages
...impair vested private rights. What I have heretofore said respecting the power of Congress to make the notes of the United States a legal tender in payment of debts contracted previous to the act of 1862, and to interfere with contracts, has had reference to debts... | |
| Frank Gilbert - Railroad law - 1873 - 354 pages
...a regulation of inter_state commerce.1 In the same decision the court held that a statute of a Mate imposing a tax upon freight, taken up within the state...taken up without the state and brought within it, is repugnant to that provision of the constitution of the United States which ordains2 that " congress... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 740 pages
...Branch, 460 CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. 1. The constitutionality of the acts of Congress of February 25th, 1862, and of subsequent acts in addition thereto, making certain notes of the United Slates a legal tender in payment of debts, reaffirmed. Railroad Company v. Johnson, 195. 2. A statute... | |
| D. C. Cloud - Monopolies - 1873 - 494 pages
...impair vested private rights. What I have heretofore said respecting the power of congress to make the notes of the United States a legal tender in payment of debts contracted previous to the act of 1862, and to interfere with contracts, has had reference to debts... | |
| D. C. Cloud - Monopolies - 1873 - 556 pages
...impair vested private rights. What I have heretofore said respecting the power of congress to make the notes of the United States a legal tender in payment of debts contracted previous to the act of 1862, and to interfere with contracts, has had reference to debts... | |
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