 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1865 - 630 sider
...grave doubts as to the validity of the specific contract law ; for when we held the act making treasury notes a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, to be constitutional, it seemed to follow as a logical consequence that if an agreement to pay a given... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1866 - 716 sider
...paying and discharging the mortgage debt due to him, declare that such notes "shall be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except for duties on imports, and interest on the public debt." (US Stat. at Large, vol.11, 345, §... | |
 | Austin Abbott - 1866 - 596 sider
...25, 1862 (12 US Stat. at L., 711), making the notes issued by the United States, "la-wful money, and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United Wilson v. Morgan. States ;" — a contract for the payment of a sum in gold and silver dollars is satisfied... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1909 - 746 sider
...of the Treasury, and the further provision was that the notes so issued should be lawful money and legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except duties on imports and interest upon bonds and notes of the United States, which the act provides... | |
 | John Alexander Ferris - 1867 - 400 sider
...currency is not equal to gold, he has made nothing by the sales. The law of Congress makes the Treasury notes " a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except duties on imports and interest " on the public debt. The Secretary has been purchasing greenbacks... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1868 - 140 sider
...for interest upon bonds and notes, which shall be paid in coin, and shall also be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid. Act Limiting the Amount of " Greenbacks." June... | |
 | 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 - 1868 - 672 sider
...debts and dues to the federal government. But the authority of Congress to make them "lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States," is challenged and denied. I shall assume, without stopping to prove what has often been established... | |
 | 1868 - 490 sider
...ambiguity of the acts of February and July, 1863, by which greenbacks are made "a lawful money and legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except duties on imports and interest upon bonds." By a perversion of the plain meaning of this statute... | |
 | 1868 - 424 sider
...United States, and all salaries, etc., from the United States, " and shall also be lawful money, and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United Slates,'' to be exchangeable for twenty-year six per cent, bonds, interest payable semi-annually, or... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1868 - 764 sider
...1862, Congress declared by law that treasury notes without interest, authorized by that act, should be legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States. An annual remittance of $30,000, less stipulated expenses, accrues to claimants under the convention... | |
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... lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid. 
