 | United States. Congress. House. Appropriations - 1935 - 1032 pages
...Congress that the so-called "Court of Claims" be made a court in the legal sense of the term, saying — "It is as much the duty of government to render prompt justice against it*?!f 1'1 favor of its citizens as it is to administer the same between private individual The investigation... | |
 | United States. Customs Court - Customs administration - 1975 - 364 pages
...short of the moral norm enunciated by President Lincoln who, in his second inaugural message, stated : "It is as much the duty of Government to render prompt...administer the same, between private individuals." Justice, in this case, requires a solution that will neither penalize nor prejudice a plaintiff who... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Government liability - 1940 - 82 pages
...of claims against the Government, expecially in view of their increased number by reason of the war. It is as much the duty of Government to render prompt...in their nature belong to the judicial department. * * * It was intended by the organization of the Court of Claims mainly to remove this branch of business... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1940 - 76 pages
...of claims against the Government, expecially in view of their increased number by reason of the war. It is as much the duty of Government to render prompt...in their nature belong to the judicial department. * * * It was intended by the organization of the Court of Claims mainly to remove this branch of business... | |
 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1861 - 926 pages
...temporary substitute, and to cease as soon as the ordinary courts can be re-established in peace. war. It is as much the duty of government to render prompt...in their nature belong to the judicial department ; besides it is apparent that the attention of Congress, will be more than usually engaged, for some... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1962 - 884 pages
...The pertinent text of his address is as follows, Cong. Globe, 37th Cong., 2d Sess., Appendix, p. 2: "It is as much the duty of Government to render prompt...in their nature belong to the judicial department .... Jt was intended by the organization of the Court of Claims mainly to remove this branch of business... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims, Audrey Bernhardt - Law reports, digests, etc - 1963 - 954 pages
...from overjsweeping rhetoric, as, eg, the quotation from President Lincoln that decorates our lobby, "[i]t is as much the duty of Government to render...citizens, as it is to administer the same between private citizens." CONG. GLOBE, 37th Cong. 2d Sess. app. at 2 (1862), the statement that we are "the 229 Ct.... | |
 | United States. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals - Customs administration - 1967 - 916 pages
...Court of Claims final, by saying this in his first Annual Message : "It is as much the duty of the Government to render prompt justice against itself...citizens as it is to administer the same between private individuals.1' This appeal to the conscience of the Nation was written into law in 1863 and, since... | |
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It is as much the duty of Government to render prompt justice against itself, in favor of citizens, as it is to administer the same between private individuals. 
