| William Graydon - Law - 1803 - 730 pages
...whose duty it shall be to prosecute and conduct all suits in the supreme court in which the united states shall be concerned, and to give his advice...compensation for his services as shall by law be provided. [See /W OJicc and Post Roads 42, and Publie ACT of June 4, 1730. (Vol. I. p. 123.) So. SECT. I. The... | |
| United States. Congress. House - United States - 1530 pages
..."whose duty it shall be to prosecute and conduct all suits in the Supreme Court in which the United States shall be concerned; and to give his advice and opinion upon questionsofhw, when required by the President of the United States, or when required by the heads of... | |
| Thomas H. Palmer - United States - 1814 - 422 pages
...general of the United States is the public prosecutor before the supreme court. It is likewise his duty to give his advice and opinion upon questions of law, when required by the president. He may also be consulted by the heads of departments, touching any matters that may concern those departments.... | |
| Edward Ingersoll - Law - 1821 - 882 pages
...whose duty it shall be to prosecute and conduct all suits in the supreme court in which the United States shall be concerned, and to give his advice...departments, touching any matters that may concern (ACT of May 26th, 1790.) their departments and shall receive such compensation for his services as... | |
| Peter Stephen Du Ponceau - Courts - 1824 - 326 pages
...whose duty it shall be lo prosecute and conduct all suits in the Supreme Court, in which the United States shall be concerned, and to give his advice...departments, touching any matters that may concern their department, and shall receive such compensation for his services as shall, by law, be provided. \ accustomed... | |
| Robert R. Beale - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry - 1825 - 332 pages
...question ; in as much as the law by which the duties of his office were prescribed, made it his duty " to give his advice and opinion upon questions of law, when required by the Ptesidtnt of the United States, or when requested by the Heads of the Departments, touching any matters... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1829 - 638 pages
...suits in the supreme court of the union, in which die United States shall be concerned, and to give bis advice and opinion upon questions of law, when required...president of the United States, or when requested by the officers at the head of any of the departments, touching any matters that may concern their deportments,... | |
| James Kent - Law - 1832 - 590 pages
...generally his duty to prosecute and conduct all suits in the Supreme Court, in which the United States are concerned, and to give his advice and opinion upon questions of law, when required by the President or the heads of the departments. Each judicial district has likewise a public officer to act as attorney... | |
| Samuel Lewis Southard - Attorneys general - 1834 - 68 pages
...and conduct all suits in the Supreme Court, in which the United 31 States are concerned ; and to give advice and opinion upon questions of law, when required...touching any matters that may concern their Departments." He is thus constituted the legal adviser of the executive branch of the Government — the counsellor... | |
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