Pueblo ex rel. López v. Pérez Peña

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• remarking that a legal liability “incurred by the United States under . . . the laws of Congress,” such as “[t]he compensation to which public officers are legally entitled . . . , exists independently of the appropriation, and may be enforced by proceedings in this court”
• remarking that a legal liability “incurred by the United States under . . . the laws of Congress,” such as “[t]he compensation to which public officers are legally entitled . . . , exists independently of the appropriation, and may be enforced by proceedings in this court”
• remarking that a legal liability “incurred by the United States under . . . the laws of Congress,” such as “[t]he compensation to which public officers are legally entitled . . . , exists independently of the appropriation, and may be enforced by proceedings in this court”
• remarking that a legal liability “incurred by the United States under . . . the laws of Congress,” such as “[t]he compensation to which public officers are legally entitled . . . , exists independently of the appropriation, and may be enforced by proceedings in this court”
• This court ... does not deal with questions of appropriations, but with the legal liabilities incurred by the United States ....”
• “[T]he legal liabilities incurred by the United States under . . . the laws of Congress . . . may be created where there is no appropriation of money to meet them . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).