| United States. Supreme Court - 1824 - 952 páginas
...think, a sound principle, that when a government becomes a partner in any trading company, it devests itself, so far as concerns the transactions of that...sovereign character, and takes that of a private citizen. Instead of communicati.ig to the company its privileges and its prerogatives, it descends to a level... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, Richard Peters - 1829 - 758 páginas
...stock of a bank, the language of this Court, in the case cited, is this. " It is, we think, a sound principle, that when a government becomes a partner...sovereign character, and takes that of a private citizen. Instead of communicating to the company its privileges and its prerogatives, it descends to a level... | |
| Jonathan Elliot - 1834 - 776 páginas
...ExpatrimioB. yv Gillies— I Peters' CC it. 159. VS v. fPUKams—4 HalFs Law Journal, 461 CC Conn 1799 493. When a government becomes a partner in any trading...transactions of that company, of its sovereign character, and Sovereign,' takes that of a private citizen — Bank United Slates v. Planter's Bank of Georgia—... | |
| James Madison Porter - 1837 - 72 páginas
...an interest in it. It is, (he says,) a sound principle that when a government becomes a partner in a trading company, it divests itself, so far as concerns...character, and takes that of a private citizen." " The same may be affirmed of insurance, canal, bridge, and turnpike companies, &c. The same may also be... | |
| Indiana. General Assembly. Senate - 1837 - 868 páginas
...Wheaton's Reports 907) said: it is a sound principle that when a government becomes a partner, in a trading company, it divests itself, so far as concerns...sovereign character, and takes that of a private citizen." Bank of South Carolina vs. Gihbs, 3 M'Cord's Reports 377— State Bank of North Carolina vs. Clark,... | |
| Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1838 - 696 páginas
...an interest in it. It is (he says,) a sound principle that, when a government becomes a partner in a trading company, it divests itself, so far as concerns...character, and takes that of a private citizen." "The same may be affirmed of insurance, canal, bridge and turnpike companies, &c. The same may also be affirmed... | |
| Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1838 - 398 páginas
...it is a sound principle, that when a government becomes a partner in a trading company, it diverts itself, so far as concerns the transactions of that...sovereign character, and takes that of a private citizen." Again, they say in the same case, page 908. "The government of the Union held shares in the old Bank... | |
| John Marshall - 1839 - 762 páginas
...think, a sound principle, that, when a government becomes a partner in any trading company, it devests itself, so far as concerns the transactions of that...sovereign character, and takes that of a private citizen. Instead of communicating to the company its privileges and its prerogatives, it descends to a level... | |
| 1840 - 574 páginas
...decisions of the Supreme Court. Judge Marshall said, " that when a Government becomes a partner in a trading company it divests itself, so far as concerns...sovereign character, and takes that of a private citizen." See the case of the US against Planter's Bank, in the ninth volume of Wheaton's Reports. If so, she... | |
| 1840 - 582 páginas
...decisions of the Supreme Court. Judge Marshall said, " that when a Government becomes a partner in a trading company it divests itself, so far as concerns...sovereign character, and takes that of a private citizen." See the case of the US against Planter's Bank, in the ninth volume of Wheaton's Reports. If so, she... | |
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