...claimants could only be heard in Congress. That Court was established in 1855 [10 Stat. at Large, 612] for the triple purpose of relieving Congress, and of protecting...Originally it was a court merely in name, for its power extended only to the preparation of bills to be submitted to Congress. Congress authorized the...

...Claims claimants could only be heard in Congress. That Court was established in 1855 [10 Stat. 612] for the triple purpose of relieving Congress, and of protecting...Originally it was a court merely in name, for its power extended only to the preparation of bills to be submitted to Congress. 13 Wall. 128, 144 (1871)....

...Claims claimants could only be heard in Congress. That Court was established in 1855 [10 Star. 612] for the triple purpose of relieving Congress, and of protecting...Originally it was a court merely in name, for its power extended only to the preparation of bills to be submitted to Congress. 13 Wall. 128, 144 (1871)....

...the intervention of a jury. (1) All claims against the State founded upon any statute of the State; or upon any regulation of an executive department; or upon any contract, expressed or implied, with the State, and all claims which may be referred to any such court by the...

...and determine "All claims (except for pensions) founded upon the Constitution of the United States or ... upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States . . ." We need not decide whether repeated trespasses might give rise to an implied contract. Cf. Portsmouth...

...chief justice and four judges, and holds one annual session at Washington. It has jurisdiction of all claims founded upon any law of Congress, or upon any...of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, expressed or implied, with the government of the United States, and all claims which may be referred...

...investigation of claims against the United States ', appointing of the three judges to pass upon ' all claims founded upon any law of Congress or upon any regulation of the executive department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United...

...Justice and four Justices, with a salary of four thousand dollars each. It has jurisdiction of "all claims founded upon any law of Congress, or upon any...implied, with the Government of the United States, which may be suggested to it by a petition filed therein, and also all claims which may be referred...

...Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, upon any regulation of an Executive Department, upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States, or for damages, liquidated or unliquidated. In cases not sounding in tort, in respect of which claims...

...where you present medals and swords." As enacted the statute gave the Court of Claims jurisdiction over "claims founded upon any law of Congress, or upon...implied, with the government of the United States." 10 Stat 612, § 1 (Feb 24, 1855). Why not? Because it was not a "case" at all. Why wasn't it? Because...