Cases Argued And Determined In The Supreme Court Of Nova Scotia 1883 84 Vol 5 Classic Reprint PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ...notes to be a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except duties on imports and interest, &c.; but it cannot be said that the debt claimed by the plaintiffs is a debt due and payable either as a public or private debt within the, United States, and to no other class of debts than those referred to in the Act can it be applicable. A debt due and payable in Nova Scotia, in law, -can only be liquidated by the moneys mentioned in the Currency Act of the Province. Dollars and cents of the United States currency, if not referable solely to the dollar and cent current in that country when the contract was made, must refer to a dollar and cent current for all purposes; but, as I have said, the paper issue under the Act of Congress is not for all purposes, but limited in its operation, and if the plaintiffs were now held to the tender made by the defendants, and had moneys to pay in the United States for either of the excepted purposes of the Act, the moneys received 1864. from the defendants would not be available for that NON BCOTIA purpose; that consequence, then, cannot, in my C0-f;HY opinion, be a just and reasonable solution of the.1'.; i, f:, 1'H contract. C""""-If I had any doubt respecting this case, as to the justice of my views with reference to the defendants being liable to the plaintiffs in the current money of the United States when the contract was entered into, or what is. equivalent to that currency, the case of Pilkington v. Commissioners for Claims, 2 Knapp R. 17 to 21, would remove the doubt. That case is fully referred to in Story on the Conflict of Laws, sec. 313 a, and from that work I now quote: "The French " Government, ...