Reports of the Supreme Court of the United States (Volume 99) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879. Excerpt: ... INDEX. ABANDONED AND CAPTURED PROPERTY. See Jurisdiction, 0. The act of March 12, 1863 (12 Stat. 820), relative toabaudoned and captured property, as extended by the act of July 2, 1864 (13 id. 375), authorizes the recovery in the Court of Claims of the proceeds of property captured and, without judicial condemnation, sold by the military authorities after July 17, 1862, and before March 12, 1863, if such proceeds were accounted for and credited by the Secretary of the Treasury to the abandoned and captured property fund. United States v. Pugh, 265. ABANDONED AND CAPTURED PROPERTY ACT. The Abandoned and Captured Property Act of March 12, 1863 (12 Stat. 820), did not repeal the act approved July 17, 1862 (id. 589), entitled " An Act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes." United States v. Winchester, 872. ABATEMENT. See Husband and Wife, Property held in Community by. ACCOMPLICE. 1. The district attorney has no authority to contract that a person ac cused of an offence against the United States shall not be prosecuted, or his property subjected to condemnation therefor, if, when examined as a witness for the government against his accomplices, he discloses fully and fairly his and their guilt. Whiskey Cases, 594. 2. A person so accused cannot set up such a contract in bar of proceed ings against him or his property for that offence, or avail himself of it on the trial, but has merely an equitable title to Executive mercy, which the court can only notice when an application to postpone the case is made in order to give him an opportunity to apply to the pardoning power. Id. ACQUIESCENCE. See Equity, 1. ACTION AT LAW. See Stockholder, Personal Liability of, 1. ADJOINI...