 It is, we think, a sound principle, that when a government becomes a partner in any trading company, it divests itself, so far as concerns the transactions of that company, of its sovereign character,, and takes that of a private citizen.  Bulletin of the Department of Labor - Page 5071905Full view - About this book
 | Lawrence Boyd Evans - International law - 1922 - 888 pages
...Chief Justice Marshall in United States v. Planters' Bank (1824), 9 Wheaton, 904, 907, where he said that "when a government becomes a partner in any trading...transactions of that company, of its sovereign character." As an Incident to this principle it has been held that If a foreign sovereign appears as a plaintiff... | |
 | Lawrence Boyd Evans - International law - 1922 - 902 pages
...Chief Justice Marshall in United States v. Planters' Bank (1824), 9 Wheaton, 904, 907, where he said that "when a government becomes a partner in any trading company, it divests itself, so far as coucerns the transactions of that company, of its sovereign character." As an incident to this principle... | |
 | Social sciences - 1923 - 622 pages
...Chief Justice Marshall in the Bank of United States vs. Planter's Bank of Georgia." He there said : It is, we think, a sound principle that when a government...becomes a partner in any trading company, it divests ttself, so far as concerns the transactions of that company, of its sovereign character, and takes... | |
 | Social sciences - 1923 - 628 pages
...Chief Justice Marshall in the Bank of United States vs. Planter's Bank of Georgia.*8 He there said : It is, we think, a sound principle that when a government...becomes a partner in any trading company, it divests hserf, so far as concerns the transactions of that company, of its sovereign character, and takes that... | |
 | United States. Department of Justice - Administrative law - 1924 - 708 pages
...stated with great force in Bank of the United States v. Planters' Bank of Georgia (9 Wheat. 904) : " It is, we think, a sound principle, that when a government becomes a partner in any trading company, its 'divests itself, so far as concerns the transactions of that company, of its sovereign character,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1924 - 1052 pages
...Supreme Court in Bank of US v. Planters' Bank of Georgia, 9 Wheat. 904, 6 L. Ed. 244, where it was said : "It is, we think, a sound principle that, when a government...Instead of communicating to the company its privileges nnd its prerogatives, it descends to a level with those with whom it associates itself, and takes the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 1062 pages
...the question, the following quotation from Bank of United States v. Planters' Bank of Georgia, supra: "It is, we think, a sound principle that, when a government...sovereign character, and takes that of a private citizen." And we may also refer to South Carolina v. United States, 199 US 437, 26 Sup. Ct. 110, 50 L. Ed. 261.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 1090 pages
...commercial undertaking. In Bank of US v. Planters' Bank of Georgia, 9 Wheat. 904, 6 L. Ed. 244, he said: "It Is, we think, a sound principle that when a government...company, of its sovereign character, and takes that of n private citizen. Instead of communicating to the company its privileges and its prerogatives, it... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1925 - 1184 pages
...the Supreme Court in Bank of US v. Planters' Bank of Georgia, 9 Wheat. 904 . . . where it was said: ' It is, we think, a sound principle that when a government...partner in any trading company, it divests itself ... of its sovereign character and takes that of a private citizen. Instead of communicating to the... | |
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