Quote Originally Posted by Michael Joseph View Post
The last part of that quote from USA v. Luther THOMAS is interesting. See the distinction FRNS are not Money. So then 12USC411 makes it clear they can be Redeemed ON DEMAND in Lawful MONEY. So the operation of Law requires a CHOICE.

Balaam cannot curse you. You can submit to Tribute or you can choose to make a Demand. In you lies the Redemption of the Debt. Has to be because as an operation of law the Redemption requires a Demand be it Oral or Expressly written. If I was engaged in banking I would prefer the latter, then there are no presumptions to overcome. However, the Right to issue FRNS is in the Federal Reserve Board by way of Contract with the Congress; the Obligation for said Notes lies within the United States by formal agreement codified at Title 12 USC 411. Or if you desire the Congressional Record which is THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA in Congress Assembled - Reference the Federal Reserve Act.
maybe this will shed a little more light on the matter?


Westfall vs. Braley, 10 Ohio 188, 75 Am. Dec. 509:

“Bank notes are the representative of money, and circulate as such,
only by the general consent and usage of the community. But this
consent and usage are based upon the convertibility of such notes
into coin, at the pleasure of the holder, upon their presentation to
the bank for redemption. This is the vital principle which sustains
their character as money. So long as they are in fact what they
purport to be, payable on demand, common consent gives them the
ordinary attributes of money. But upon failure of the bank by which
they are issued, when its doors are closed, and its inability to
redeem its bills is openly avowed, they instantly lose the character of money,
their circulation as currency ceases with the usage and consent upon
which it rested, and the notes become the mere dishonored and
depreciated evidences of debt . . . It is only upon this idea that they
can honestly be tendered as money, and when accepted as such,
under the same supposition, the mutual mistake of facts should no
more be permitted to benefit one party, or prejudice the other, than
if the notes had been spurious, or payment had been made in base
or adulterated coin."