 | Law - 1846 - 536 pages
...frequent than any that can be urged, in this case, to support, or even to countenance such a claim. If it be said that the Governor of a Colony is quasi...specific powers with which that commission clothes him. " The Governor, (said Lord Chief Justice De Grey, in Fabrigas vs. Mostyn, when that case was before... | |
 | Law - 1862 - 422 pages
...that he does not even represent the sovereign generally, having only the functions delegated to him by his commission, and being only the officer to execute the specific powers with which the commission clothes him." Numerous cases might be cited in which colonial governors have been sued... | |
 | Law - 1862 - 722 pages
...that, he does not even represent the sovereign generally, having only the functions delegated lo him by his commission, and being only the officer to execute the specific powers with which the commission clothes him." Numerous cases might be cited in which colonial governors have been sued... | |
 | William Forsyth - Constitutional law - 1869 - 618 pages
...limits of the authority so given to them is purely void : Cameron v. Kyle, 3 Knapp, PC 332. " If it bo said that the Governor of a colony is quasi Sovereign,...specific powers with which that commission clothes him :" per cur. Hill v. Bigge, 3 Moore, PC 476. The civil superintendent of a colony who was an officer... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1880 - 762 pages
...exemption from being sued in the Courts of the Colony. The claim to such exemption is thus met : — " If it be said that the governor of a colony is quasi...specific powers with which that commission clothes him." The defendant has sought to strengthen his claim of privilege by averring in his plea that the acts... | |
 | Cape of Good Hope. Supreme court - 1887 - 242 pages
...sovereign, the answer is, that he does not even represent the Sovereign generally, having only the function delegated to him by the terms of his Commission, and...specific powers with which that Commission clothes him." It is clear, therefore, that where any act of the Governor is justified as having been done by virtue... | |
 | Law - 1889 - 314 pages
...f/пакг Sovereign, the answer is that he does not even represent the Sovereign generally, having o.ily the functions delegated to him by the terms of his...powers with which that commission clothes him." In order to meet an observation made in the course of the argument, I would add that, for the purpose... | |
 | Jean Joseph Beauchamp, Great Britain. Privy Council - Civil law Canada - 1891 - 946 pages
...that he does not even represent the Sovereign generally, having only the functions delegated to him hy the terms of his commission, and being only the officer...specific powers with which that commission clothes him: "The " Governor " said Lord chief justice De Grey inFabrigasv. Mostiyn, " is the King's servant : his... | |
 | Law - 1892 - 942 pages
...the court of the colony over which he presided could not give it any legal effect." council, says : " If it be said that the Governor of a colony is quasi...specific powers with which that commission clothes him." And his lordship, referring to the dictum of Lord Mansfield, in Mostyn v. Fabrir/as above referred... | |
 | Law - 1892 - 946 pages
...answer is that he does not even represent the Sovereign generally, having only the functionsdelegated to him by the terms of his commission, and being only...specific powers with which that commission clothes him." And his lordship, referring to the dictum of Lord Mansfield, in Mostyn v. Fabric/as above referred... | |
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If it be said that the governor of a colony is quasi Sovereign, the answer is, that he does not even represent the Sovereign generally, having only the functions delegated to him by the terms of his commission, and being only the officer to execute the... 
