Court Opinion

ID: 9417097
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 20:03:12.276461+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:21:36.170834
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Bradley
delivered the following opinion, in which
Mr. Justice Field concurred.
I dissent from so much of the opinion in this case as holds that an assignment of :a claim against the United States could not transfer the legal title thereto without the aid of some statute. I know of nothing in the Constitution or laws of the United States which adopts the common-law rule on this sub*418ject. There is no such rule.in 'the civil law, nor in the laws of many of the States. So far as the opinion places the judgment upon the statute of 1853, which prohibits the assignment of. claims against the United States, I concur in it.