 | United States. Supreme Court - 1824
...prerogative, but upon a great public policy. The government can transact its business only through its agents ; and its fiscal operations are so various,...the most serious losses, if the doctrine of laches can be applied to its transactions. It would, in effect, work a repeal of all its securities. On the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1824
...prerogative, but upon a great. public policy. The government can transact its business only through its agents ; and its fiscal operations are so various,...numerous and scattered, that the utmost vigilance would pot save the public from the most serious losses, if the doctrine of laches can be applied to its transactions.... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - 1851
...down the same principle, and there say, " The government can transact its business only through its agents; and its fiscal operations are so various,...the most serious losses, if the doctrine of laches can be applied to its transactions. It would in effect work a repeal of all its securities." That the... | |
 | Richard Peters - 1860
...transact its business only through its Lands. agents ; and its fiscal operations are so various, and ils agencies so numerous and scattered, that the utmost...the most serious losses, if the doctrine of laches can be applied to its transactions. Mere laches, unaccompanied with fraud, forms no discharge of the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1864
...laches will discharge the bond, cannot be maintained in law : " The utmost vigilance," it was said, " would not save the public from the most serious losses, if the doctrine of laches can be applied to its transactions. It would, in effect, work a repeal of all its securities." It was... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - 1927
...prerogative but upon a great public policy. The Government can transact its business only through its agents, and its fiscal operations are so various and...the most serious losses if the doctrine of laches can be applied to its transactions." See United States v. American Bell Telephone Co., 159 US 548,... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims, Audrey Bernhardt - 1954
...prerogative, but upon a great public policy. The government can transact its business only through its agents ; and its fiscal operations are so various,...vigilance would not save the public from the most serious Tosses, if the doctrine of laches can be applied to its transactions. It would, in effect, work a repeal... | |
 | 1885
...Court say: " The general *I» Fed. Hep. principle is that laches is not imputable to the government. The utmost vigilance would not save the public from...the most serious losses if the doctrine of laches could be applied to its transactions. It would, in effect, work a repeal of all its securities." In... | |
 | 1883
...prerogation, but upon a great public policy. The Government can transact its business only through its agents ; and its fiscal operations are so various...and scattered that the utmost vigilance would not have saved the public from the most serious losses, if the doctrine of laches can be applied to its... | |
 | 1884
...720, the supreme court say. "The general principle is that laches is not iinputable to the government. The utmost vigilance would not save the public from the most serious losses if the doftrine of laches could be applied to its transactions. It would, in effect, work a repeal of all... | |
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The general principle is that laches is not imputable to the government; and this maxim is founded, not in the notion of extraordinary prerogative, but upon a great public policy. The government can transact its business only through its agents ; and... 
