 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 800 pages
...contracts and instituting suits is an incident to the general right of sovereignty ; and the United States, being a body politic, may, within the sphere of the...department, to which those powers are confided, enter into 1 United States v. F wAer, 2 Cranch, 358 ; 1 Peters's Condensed Rep. 421 ; Harrison v. Sterry, 5 Cranch,... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1040 pages
...contracts and instituting suits is an incident to the general rights of sovereignty ; and the United States being a body politic, may, within the sphere of the...appropriate to the just exercise of those powers, and enforce the observance of them by suits and judicial process." § 228. We have thus far considered... | |
 | Tennessee. Supreme Court, West Hughes Humphreys - 1849 - 864 pages
...the U. States being a body politic may within the sphere of the constitutional power granted to it enter into contracts not prohibited by law and appropriate to the just exercise of those powers." In the case of Hibbiis vs. Canada et ah. 10th Yerger 465, it was held by this court, that when an administration... | |
 | 1852 - 224 pages
...respecting the same 648 It is an incident to the general right of sovereignty for the government to enter into contracts not prohibited by law and appropriate to the just exercise of those powers. (United States vs. Tingey, 5th Peters, 127) , 866 The title of a quantity of pork contracted for by... | |
 | Richard Peters - 1860 - 836 pages
...within the sphere of their constitutional powers, and appropriate to the just exercise of those powers, through the instrumentality of the proper department to which those powers are confided, whenever such contracts or bonds are not prohibited by law; although the making of such contracts,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1864 - 696 pages
...within the sphere of their constitutional powers, and appropriate to the just exercise of those powers, through the instrumentality of the proper department, to which those powers are intrusted, whenever such bonds or contracts are not prohibited by law, although the making such contracts,... | |
 | George Washington Paschal - 1868 - 438 pages
...instrumentality of the proper department to which the delegated powers are confided, it 2? 4« may enter into contracts not prohibited by law, and appropriate to the just exercise of those powers. United States v. Tingey, 5 Pet. 128. As a corporation, it has capacity to sue by its corporate title.... | |
 | George Washington Paschal - 1868 - 448 pages
...the instrumentality of ihe proper department to which tlie delegated powers are confided, it 2. 4may enter into contracts not prohibited by law, and appropriate to the just exercise of those powers. United States v. Tingey, 5 Pet. 128. Asa corporation, it has capacity to sue by its corporate title.... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1907 - 1382 pages
...contracts. It is, in our opinion, an incident to the general right of sovereignty ; and the United States, being a body politic, may, within the sphere of the...appropriate to the just exercise of those powers." "To adopt a different principle would be to deny the ordinary rights of sovereignty, not merely to... | |
 | 1878 - 540 pages
...contracts. It is, in our opinion, an incident to the general right of sovereignty, and the United Sti.tes, being a body politic, may, within the sphere of the...instrumentality of the proper department to which these powers are confided, enter into contracts not prohibited by law, and appropriate to the just... | |
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Upon full consideration of this subject, we are of opinion that the United States have such a capacity to enter into contracts. It is in our opinion an incident to the general right of sovereignty; and the United States being a body politic, may within... 
