Digest of Decisions and Opinions Relating to Pensions and Bounty Land: With a Supplement Containing the Pension Laws, Arranged and Consolidated, the Bounty Land Laws, Laws Enacted and Repealed Since March 4, 1861, and the Rules of Practice as to Appeals. Also an Historical Introduction Narrating the Origin and Development of the Pension System, Tables of Cases Digested, Cited, and Overruled, and of Statutes Cited and Construed |
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Common terms and phrases
accrued pension act of August act of February act of June act of March Actg adjudication adulterous cohabitation aid and attendance allowed appeal arrears Asst Atty Augustus H bounty land bounty-land warrant Bussey cause certificate of disability Charles Citing claim for pension claimant commence Commissioner of Pensions contract Daniel date of filing declaration Delano Department desertion disease Elizabeth enlistment entitled to bounty evidence examining surgeons fact father February 11 George George W Hawkins held Henry honorably discharged ibid incurred Jacob James James H January 25 Joseph July 27 June 18 June 27 line of duty Mary Mother original paid payment pending pension laws Pension Office person power of attorney presumption prior proof prosecution record Reimbursement rejection Revised Statutes Reynolds rule Samuel Sarah Schurz Secretary September 28 sion Smith soldier special act subsequent SUBTITLE Teller testimony Thomas tion title to pension Widow of John William H
Popular passages
Page 532 - If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States in any manner or for any purpose...
Page 530 - Every person who, having taken an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any case in which a law of the United States authorizes an oath to be administered...
Page 568 - ... the result of their own vicious habits, which incapacitates them from the performance of manual labor in such a degree as to render them unable to earn a support, shall, upon making due proof of the fact according to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may provide, be placed upon the list of invalid pensioners of the United States, and be entitled to receive a pension not exceeding twelve dollars per month, and not less than six dollars per month, proportioned to the degree...
Page 531 - Who, having charge, possession, custody, or control of any money or other property of the United States, furnished or intended for the military service thereof, knowingly delivers, or causes to be delivered, to any person having authority to receive the same, any amount thereof less than that for which he receives a certificate or receipt ; or...
Page 530 - Whoever shall falsely make, alter, forge, or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, altered, forged, or counterfeited, or willingly aid or assist in the false making, altering, forging, or counterfeiting, any...
Page 548 - Service, or at any time, in consequence of wounds received in service, and shall leave a widow, or if no widow, a child, or children, under sixteen years of age ; such widow, or if no widow, such child, or children, shall be entitled to receive half the monthly pay...
Page 527 - Secretary may, after due notice and opportunity for hearing, suspend and disbar from further practice before his department any such person, agent, or attorney shown to be incompetent, disreputable, or who refuses to comply with the said rules and regulations, or who shall with intent to defraud, in any manner willfully and knowingly deceive, mislead, or threaten any claimant or prospective claimant, by word, circular, letter, or by advertisement.
Page 17 - The only general rule that can be laid down upon the subject is, that the circumstances must be such as would lead the guarded discretion of a reasonable and just man to the conclusion...
Page 242 - It is an elementary principle of the law of evidence that the best evidence of which the case in its nature is susceptible...
Page 570 - June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and for other purposes," approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, which reads as follows : " That from and after July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, no pension shall be paid to a nonresident who is not a citizen of the United States, except for actual disabilities incurred in the service," be and the same is hereby repealed.