The bills would be "lawful money and a legal tender in the payment of all debts".
Although the Legal Tender legislation allowed for the payment of government obligations in paper money, Stevens was unable to get the Senate to agree that interest on the national debt should be paid with greenbacks.
Both parties performed your obligations under the contract when you tendered the car, received the payment, and relinquished ownership of the car.
395, 398, 399, it was said that it was the payment or tender of the value assessed by the inquisition that gave title to a railroad company that had taken private property for its road, and, consequently, without such payment or tender no title could pass.
In that case the effect of a tender in payment of taxes upon the subsequent act of the collector in seizing the personal property of the tax-payer was considered and decided, but there is nothing in the opinion which countenances the idea that such a tender was a payment of the taxes, so as to extinguish all subsequent claim of the state therefor.
If he defends the action on the ground of a lawful tender of payment, he must, of course, plead the tender, and may rightfully be required to bring into court the tender alleged to have been made.
It says in part: "No person shall use or enter the facilities or conveyances of the authority, for any purpose, without the payment of fare or tender of other valid fare media used in accordance with any conditions and restrictions imposed by the authority".
In that ruling, which was unpopular with business interests, the court held that the federal government did not have the power to make greenbacks legal tender for payment of debts contracted in gold dollars.
Where a task is small, and the payment is reasonable, it may not always be necessary to invite tenders for a piece of work.
coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; [or] pass any..
Some have noted that Article 1, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution says that "No State shall...coin money". But the article then adds that states shall not "make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts". Marshall's bill argues that clause, and some 19th century Supreme Court rulings, make Virginia coins legal tender.
