Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States: Advising the President and Heads of Departments in Relation to Their Official Duties, Volume 9R. Farnham, 1869 - Attorneys general's opinions |
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Page 200 - Constitution which declares- that no person shall be deprived of his life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.
Page 190 - All transfers and assignments made of any claim upon the United States, or of any part or share thereof, or interest therein, whether absolute or conditional, and whatever may be the consideration therefor, and all powers of attorney, orders, or other authorities for receiving payment of any such claim, or...
Page 524 - This certainly means nothing more than the power to commence and carry on hostilities against the foreign enemies of the nation. Another clause in the same section gives Congress the power " to provide for calling forth the militia," and to use them within the limits of the State.
Page 68 - ... examination, it shall appear to the Commissioner that the applicant was not the original and first inventor, or discoverer, thereof, or that any part of that which is claimed as new had before been invented...
Page 124 - No officer in any branch of the public service, or any other person whose salary, pay, or emoluments are fixed by law or regulations, shall receive any additional pay, extra allowance, or compensation, in any form whatever...
Page 518 - ... peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none: the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies: the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home, and safety abroad...
Page 66 - And in the case of any machine, he shall fully explain the principle, and the several modes in which he has contemplated the application of that principle or character, by which it may be distinguished from other inventions ; and he shall accompany the whole with drawings and written references, where the nature of the case admits of drawings...
Page 485 - Actual damages clearly include the direct and actual loss which the plaintiff sustains propter rem ipsam non habitant. And in case of a contract like this, that loss is, among other things, the difference between the cost of doing the work and the price to be paid for it.
Page 522 - That whenever the laws of the United States shall be opposed, or the execution thereof obstructed, in any State, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals...
Page 69 - ... is defective and insufficient, he shall notify the applicant thereof, giving him briefly such information and references as may be useful in judging of the propriety of renewing his application, or of altering his specification to embrace only that part of the invention or discovery which is new. In every such case...