Legal Opinion

French v. Wade

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided February 18, 1880No. 1029PublishedCited by 7 opinions

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Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana. This was a suit brought March 14, 1878, against Joseph M. French, by the heirs-at-law of Henry F. Wade, Jr., to recover the possession of certain real estate in tiie city of New Orleans. Wade was the owner of the property when it was seized and a libel for its condemnation filed in the proper District Court of the United States, under the act of July 17, 1862 (12 Stat. 589), commonly called the Confiscation Act, and the joint resolution of even date therewith. Id. 627. It was condemned May 6, 1865, as forfeited to…

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite

We think the court below was right in holding that this case was governed by that of Wallach et al. v. Van Riswick (92 U. S. 202), in which we decided that after a seizure and an adjudicated condemnation and sale under the Confiscation Act of July 17, 1862 (12 Stat. 589), of the lands of one engaged in rebellion against 'the United States, .there was “left in him no estate or intérest of any description which he could convey by deed, and no power which he could exercise in favor of another” (p. 208), and that the joint resolution passed contemporaneously with the approval of the act was…

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