Spofford v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of this case as found by the court: I. Under the act of July 1,1879, entitled «An act to provide office rooms for the National Board of Health and for the publication of its reports and papers, and for other purposes” (21 Stat. L., 46), section 1, “that the National Board of Health is hereby authorized and empowered to procure suitable and sufficient offices in the city of Washington for the transaction of its…
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of this case as found by the court: I. Under the act of July 1,1879, entitled «An act to provide office rooms for the National Board of Health and for the publication of its reports and papers, and for other purposes” (21 Stat. L., 46), section 1, “that the National Board of Health is hereby authorized and empowered to procure suitable and sufficient offices in the city of Washington for the transaction of its business, at a rental not to exceed the sum of $1,800 per annum,” said board, in October, 1879, by verbal arrangement,…
1Opinion of the Court
Nott, Cb. J.,
delivered tbe opinion of tbe court:
Tbe law of real estate is a tiling by itself; conveyances, leases, and devices are regulated by tbe lex rei sitie. In tbe District of Columbia tbe law provides, as between landlord and tenant, that when a tenant bolds over, or when a lease does not prescribe tbe term, it shall continue until one party or tbe other brings it to an end by a month’s notice. That is to say, where tbe parties do not prescribe a term tbe law supplies one, and they adopt it as tbe term intended by tlieir agreement.
In 1879 Congress, by tbe Act 1st July, 1879 (21 Stat,…
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