 | United States. Court of Claims - 1945 - 952 páginas
...acts the government may do, be they legislative or executive, so long as they be public and general, cannot be deemed specially to alter, modify, obstruct...appear simply as contractors; and they are to be held 102 C. Cls. RylUbos liable only within the same limits that any other defendant would be in any other... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - 1948 - 974 páginas
...public acts as a sovereign is well expressed in Jones v. United States, supra, where the court said : In this court the United States appear simply as contractors ; and they are to be held liable only within the Opinion of the Co»rt same limits that any other defendant would be in any other court. Though their... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - 1946 - 906 páginas
...they legislative or executive, so long as they be public and general, cannot be deemed specifically to alter, modify, obstruct, or violate the particular...contracts into which it enters with private persons." The same rule was applied in Horowitz v. United States, 58 C. Cls. 189, affirmed 267 US 458, and in... | |
 | Charles C. Nott, Archibald Hopkins - 1876 - 594 páginas
...acts the Government may do, be they legislative or executive, so long c,s they be public and general, cannot be deemed specially to alter, modify, obstruct,...the particular contracts into which it enters with individuals. It is a principle, applicable to all cases, that the United States as a contractor cannot... | |
 | 1908 - 1054 páginas
...Government may do, be they legislative or executive, so long as they be public and general, can not be deemed specially to alter, modify, obstruct, or...contracts into which it enters with private persons." Every state in the administration of its national law distinguishes those governmental acts which give... | |
 | Edwin Montefiore Borchard - 1914 - 102 páginas
...acts the government may do, be they legislative or executive, so long as they be public and general, cannot be deemed specially to alter, modify, obstruct...particular contracts into which it enters with private persons."103 The question arises whether these distinctions of national law which exclude the case... | |
 | Edwin Borchard - 1915 - 1042 páginas
...acts the government may do, be they legislative or executive, so long as they be public and general, cannot be deemed specially to alter, modify, obstruct...contracts into which it enters with private persons." ' The question arises whether these distinctions of national law which exclude the case mentioned from... | |
 | Edwin Borchard - 1915 - 1038 páginas
...may do, be they legislative or executive, so long as they be public and general, can not be deemed to alter, modify, obstruct or violate the particular contracts into which it enters vrith private persons." • This is in marked contrast to the rule prevailing in France, where liability... | |
 | 1925 - 914 páginas
...sovereign." Horowitz vs. United States, supra. And again, it has been held that if sued as a contractor it is to be held liable only within the same limits that any other defendant would be in any other court. Jones vs. United States, supra. Conversely, when the United States sues to enforce its rights under... | |
 | United States. Department of Justice - 1924 - 702 páginas
...Government may do, be they legislative or executive, so long as they be public and general, can not be deemed specially to alter, modify, obstruct, or violate the particular contracts into w hich it enters with individuals." The court also said : " A principle applicable to all cases, that... | |
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In this court the United States appear simply as contractors ; and they are to be held liable only within the same limits that any other defendant would be in any other court. Though their sovereign acts performed for the general good may work injury... 
