 | Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, Frederick Watts - 1836 - 538 halaman
...wife, their heirs and assigns for ever, subject to the payment of the sum of 2662 pounds 10 shillings, in gold and silver coin, lawful money of the United States, to the persons hereafter named, and at the times mentioned, viz." certain legacies to children and grandchildren.... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1869 - 144 halaman
...stated are believed to be inconlestible. If they are so in fact, the inquiry concerning the legal import of the phrase "dollars payable in gold and silver coin-, lawful money of the United States," may be answered without much difficulty. Every snch dollar ia a *9U. S.Stat,793. . S. Stat., 398. J... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1872
...stated are believed to be incontestible. If they are so in fact, the inquiry concerning the legal import of the phrase "dollars payable in gold and silver coin, lawful money of the United States," may be answered without much difficulty. Every such dollar is a * 9 US Stat., 793. f 19 US Sfcat.,... | |
 | 1871 - 874 halaman
...which was then the only one. Chief Justice CHASE said, in delivering judgment, that the legal import of the phrase " dollars payable in gold and silver coin lawful money of the United States," might be ascertained without much difficulty. Every such dollar was a piece of gold or silver certified... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick, Arthur George Sedgwick - 1891 - 742 halaman
...based on two grounds : first, that by the various acts of Congress regulating the currency, a contract, payable in gold and silver coin, lawful money of the United States, was equivalent to one to deliver an equal weight of bullion of the same fineness as required by law... | |
 | 1896 - 284 halaman
...stated are believed to be incontestable. lf they are so in fact, the inquiry concerning the legal import of the phrase 'dollars payable in gold and silver coin, lawful money of the United States,' may be answered without much difficulty. Every such dollar is a piece of gold or silver, certified... | |
 | Joseph Fitz Randolph - 1899 - 1068 halaman
...payable "in American gold," it must be so paid.91 So. a bond which became due before the act, and was payable "in gold and silver coin, lawful money of the United States"; " or a contract payable "in English golden guineas and other gold and silver coin at the present established... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1912 - 1054 halaman
...was to be paid, at all events, in coined lawful money. *We have just adverted to the fact that ['247 the legal obligation of payment in coin was perfect...in law of the phrase "dollars payable in gold and solver coin, lawful money of the United States." To form a correct judgment on this point, It will... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1912 - 1054 halaman
...believed to be incontestable. If they are so in fact, the inquiry concerning the legal import of tinphrase "dollars payable in gold and silver "coin, lawful money of the United [250 States," may be answered without much difficulty. Every such dollar is a piece of gold or silver,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1934 - 534 halaman
...the cases which followed it. Bronson v. Rodes, it will be recalled, involved a contract made in 1851, payable "in gold and silver coin, lawful money of the United States.". This Court declared that the contract could be satisfied only by payment in coin. The principle of... | |
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If they are so in fact, the inquiry concerning the legal import of the phrase 'dollars payable in gold and silver coin, lawful money of the United States,' may be answered without much difficulty. Every such dollar is a piece of gold or silver, certified... 
