I thought that United States currency was legal tender for all debts. Some businesses or governmental agencies say that they will only accept checks, money orders or credit cards as payment, and others will only accept currency notes in denominations of $20 or smaller.
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Legal tender - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Legal tender or forced tender is an offered payment that, by law, cannot be refused in settlement of a debt, and have the debt remain in force. The origin of the word is from Middle English tendre...
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Tender offer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tender offer is a corporate finance term denoting a type of takeover bid. The tender offer is a public, open offer or invitation (usually announced in a newspaper advertisement) by a prospective acqu...
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on Legal Tender Act (United States [1862]), To finance the Civil War, the federal government in 1862 passed the Legal Tender Act, authorizing the creation of paper money not redeemable in gold or silver. ... For a definition of "Legal Tender Act (United States [1862])",
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on Legal Tender Cases (United States history), (1870, 1871), two cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the power of Congress to authorize government notes not backed by specie as money that creditors had to accept in payment of debts. ... Supreme Court of the United States...
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There has, however, been serious controversy as to the power of the United States to give a legal tender character to these bills when issued.
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In 1878, Congress passed an act requiring the federal government to keep $346,681,016 in Legal Tender in circulation. ... Of all of these, the most interesting is the Series 1928 $1 United States Note. The signatures suggest that they were printed in a narrow timeframe in the spring of 1933. Folklore has it that they weren...
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1878 $20 United States Note Legal Tender FR-129 PMG Graded CU62 S/N A1624878 ... 1917 $2 United States Legal Tender FR-57 PMG Graded Gem 65EPQ S/N A39015995A ... 1869 $1 Rainbow United States Legal Tender Note FR-18 PMG Graded CU63EPQ S/N A468280...
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Harry Lipscomb Chief Water Tender, United States Nav ... Born at Washington, D. C. on April 2, 1878, he earned the Medal of Honor on September 8, 1910 while serving aboard the USS North Dakota. ... He died on September 7, 1926 and was buried in Section 3 of Arlington National Cemtery.
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And soon there will be none - at least not as we knew them. ; The US Navy has turned USS EMORY S. LAND over to MSC; To be crewed by civilians while a Navy Captain remains in command - and ... USS FRANK CABLE is scheduled to be turned over to MSC sometime this year (2009); ... More details on the News page - or click here...
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