 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 746 pages
...paid by one hundred eagles coined after that year, though they contained no more gold than ninety-four eagles such as were coined when the contract was made, and this, • Apsden v. Austin, 5 Adolphue & Ellis, N. 8. 671 ; Dunn v. Sayles, Ib. 686; Coffin o. Landis, 10... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Greenbacks - 1872 - 192 pages
...paid by one hundred eagles coined after that year, though they contained no more gold than ninety-four eagles, such as were coined when the contract was...without a law fixing their legal value, they could no more have paid a debt than uncoined bullion, or cotton, or wheat. Every contract for the payment... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1872
...paid by one hundred eagles coined after that year, though they contained no more gold than ninety-four eagles such as were coined when the contract was made,...without a law fixing their legal value, they could no more have paid a debt than uncoined bullion, or cotton, or wheat. Every contract for the payment... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1872 - 248 pages
...that year, though they contained no more gold than ninety-four eagles such as were coined when tue contract was made, and this not because of the intrinsic...without a law fixing their legal value, they could no more have paid a debt than uncoined bullion, or cotton, or wheat. Every contract for the payment... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1872
...eagles Congress. But in fact the auxiliary powers, those necessary and appropriate to the e'xecusuch as were coined when the contract was made, and this not because of the intrinsic tion of other powers singly described, are as value of the coin, but because of its legal value, j... | |
 | Luther Vanhorn Moulton - Currency question - 1880 - 278 pages
...though they contained no more gold than ninetyfour eagles coined when the contract was made; and this is not because of the intrinsic value of the coin, but...without a law fixing their legal value, they could no more have paid a debt than un-coined bullion, or cotton or wheat. Every coatraci for the payment... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1882 - 954 pages
...hundred eagles coined after that year, though they contained no more gold than ninety-four eagles such ut were coined when the contract was made ; and this, not because of the intrinsic value of tho coin, but because of its legal value. The eat'lcs coined after 1834 were not money until tliev... | |
 | Freeman Otis Willey - Currency question - 1882 - 564 pages
...though they contained no more gold than ninety-four eagles before the contract was made, and this is not because of the intrinsic value of the coin, but because of its legal value.' 1 My countrymen, the above is a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, a majority of whose... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 966 pages
...paid by one hundred eagles coined after that year, though they contained no more gold than ninety-four eagles such as were coined when the contract was made,...because of its legal value. The eagles coined after 18¡i4 were not money until they were authorized by law, and had they been coined before, without a... | |
 | James Laurence Laughlin - 1885 - 326 pages
...paid by one hundred eagles coined after that year, though they contained no more gold than ninety-four eagles, such as were coined when the contract was...of the intrinsic value of the coin, but because of ita legal value."—" Banker's Magazine," 1871-1872, pp. 765-767. even monetary irregularities, after... | |
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... eagles such as were coined when the contract was made, and this, not because of the intrinsic value of the coin, but because of its legal value. The eagles coined after 1834, were not money until they were authorized by law, and... 
