The Central Law Journal, Volume 2Soule, Thomas & Wentworth, 1875 - Law Vols. 64-96 include "Central law journal's international law list". |
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... principle of republi- can government , to - wit : that all public officers can be compelled by law to perform merely ministerial acts and duties involving the exercise of no discretion . " See also Pacific Railroad v . Governor , 23d Mo ...
... principle of republi- can government , to - wit : that all public officers can be compelled by law to perform merely ministerial acts and duties involving the exercise of no discretion . " See also Pacific Railroad v . Governor , 23d Mo ...
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... principle than that the commissioner was a ministerial officer , and was not then regarded or treated by the courts ... principle . But in all of the subsequent cases the principle is strictly limited to the enforce- ment of mere ...
... principle than that the commissioner was a ministerial officer , and was not then regarded or treated by the courts ... principle . But in all of the subsequent cases the principle is strictly limited to the enforce- ment of mere ...
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... principle depending upon the constitutional division of the powers of our state government . If this writ is to be used as a remedy for the assertion of private rights in this state as to the heads of the executive department , it ...
... principle depending upon the constitutional division of the powers of our state government . If this writ is to be used as a remedy for the assertion of private rights in this state as to the heads of the executive department , it ...
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... principle under which municipal corporations are empowered to exercise these important functions — such as levying ... principle is greatly modified and limited in its signification by other maxims and principles equally well established ...
... principle under which municipal corporations are empowered to exercise these important functions — such as levying ... principle is greatly modified and limited in its signification by other maxims and principles equally well established ...
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... principle , " he says , " which is better settled than that no judge of a court of record is liable to action for a judicial act , although in many of the cases distinctions are made be- tween the liabilities of judges holding courts of ...
... principle , " he says , " which is better settled than that no judge of a court of record is liable to action for a judicial act , although in many of the cases distinctions are made be- tween the liabilities of judges holding courts of ...
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Page 200 - Be it therefore enacted, that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof...
Page 266 - To exercise by its board of directors, or duly authorized officers or agents, subject to law, all such incidental powers as shall be necessary to carry on the business of banking; by discounting and negotiating promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange, and other evidences of debt...
Page 297 - An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain...
Page 326 - ... all cases where any person may be restrained of his or her liberty, in violation of the Constitution, or of any treaty or law of the United States,
Page 207 - That the Circuit Courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several states, of all suits of a civil nature, at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value of two thousand dollars, and arising under the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Page 219 - I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know; Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
Page 27 - By the Constitution of the United States the President is invested with certain important political powers, in the exercise of which he is to use his own discretion, and is accountable only to his country in his political character, and to his own conscience.
Page 362 - Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would, if death had not ensued, have entitled the party injured to maintain an action to recover damages in respect thereof...
Page 207 - And when in any suit mentioned in this section there shall be a controversy which is wholly between citizens of different states, and which can be fully determined as between them, then either one or more of the defendants actually interested in such controversy may remove said suit into the circuit court of the United States for the proper district.
Page 208 - Court, at any time after such suit has been brought or removed thereto, that such suit does not really and substantially involve a dispute or controversy properly within the jurisdiction of said Circuit Court...