United States
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
There is an inconvenient ambiguity in this phrase. It sometimes designates the states composing the American Union, separately considered, as in the expression "one of the United States." More often, in law-books, it designates the national government, the political entirety, as in the phrases given below. Sometimes it means the whole countiy subject to the state and federal governments.
United States bonds
Obligations for payment of money which have been at various times issued by the governdictment for la,re6ny, includes national bank notes.
State v. Gasting, 23 La. Ann. 609.
United States commissioner. See Commissioners op Circuit Courts. United States marslial. See Mar- SBAt,.
United States notes
Promissory notes, in the similitude of bank-notes, issued by the government of the United States.