...and consent of the Senate, to hold their office during good behaviour. It is the duty of this court to hear and determine all claims founded upon any...therein; and also all claims which may be referred to the court by either House of Congress. An officer, called the Solicitor for the United States, is appointed...

...and consent of the senate, and to hold their offices during good behavior ; and the said court shall hear and determine all claims founded upon any law...implied, with the government of the United States, (a) which may be suggested to it by a petition filed therein ; and also all claims which may be referred...

...jurisdiction ever since it has existed. Under the acts constituting it, "The said court shall have and determine all claims founded upon any law of Congress,...implied, with the government of the United States." Now the Captured and Abandoned Property Act remitted claimants to that court, under the general powers...

...jurisdiction of the Court of Claims. APPEAL from the Court of Claims dismissing a petition before it, as not " founded upon any law of Congress, or upon any regulation of an executive department, or upon Statement of the case and judgment of the court. any contract, express or implied, with the government...

...I"1*11**'0"upon any law of the state, or upon any regulation of an executive department of the state, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the government of the state, or any executive officer thereof, which may be suggested to it by a petition brought and served...

...praying or providing [Jj^]^*0 Court for the satisfaction of all private claims against the government, founded upon any law of Congress, or upon any regulation...contract, express or implied, with the government, unless otherwise ordered by resolution of the House. — Stat. at Large, Vol. XII, p. 765. By the act...

...Langford case was decided this court's jurisdiction, denned by section 1059, Revised Statutes, was founded upon " any law of Congress or upon any regulation...department or upon any contract, express or implied," and that by the act of March 3, 1887, 24 Stat. 505, which became practically section 145 of the Judicial...

...employees means of enforcing their rights under the Act. Since 1855, the Court of Claims has had authority "to hear and determine all claims founded upon any...or upon any regulation of an executive department * * * which may be suggested to it by petition filed therein * * *". The right of Federal employees...

...Confederation of May 24, 1850. Id. V. Under the original jurisdictional act, empowering the Court of Claims to hear and determine all claims founded upon any law of Congress or upon any contract with the Government, the language is broad enough to include claims by aliens, and subsequent...

...the meaning of the statute which confers jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims of actions founded ' upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States.' " Unless, therefore, out of the facts the law can raise an implied promise on the part of the Government...