 to issue writs of mandamus in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law, to any courts appointed, or persons holding office, under the authority of the United States.  A National Calendar ... - Page 122by Peter Force - 1831Full view - About this book
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional law - 1854 - 674 pages
...mandamus. § 199. The Judiciary Act authorizes the Supreme Court to issue writs of mandamus, " in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law, to...courts appointed [or persons holding office] under the authority of the United States."8 A writ of mandamus, according to the principles 10 Wheaton, 51. 2... | |
 | John Bouvier - Law - 1855 - 774 pages
...congress of September, 24, 1789, gives the supreme court power to issue writs of mandamus in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law, to...courts appointed or persons holding office, under tho authority of the United States. The issuing of a mandamus to courts, is the exercise of an appellate... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Geography - 1856 - 802 pages
...weeding as courts of admiralty and maritime juB, and writs of mandamus, in cases warranted by ti»> principles and usages of law, to any courts appointed, or persons holding office, under the authority Of Ihe United States. — The trial of issues in fact in the Supreme Court, in all actions... | |
 | 1861 - 828 pages
...provisions of the constitution, the US supreme court received power to issue writs of mandamus in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law " to...courts appointed or persons holding office under the authority of the United Slates." Afterward, however, upon construction of the' ~ act, the latter clause... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1859 - 794 pages
...among other things, that the Supreme Court " shall have the power to issue writs of mandamus in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law, to...courts appointed or persons holding office under the authority of the United States." But, in the celebrated case of Marbury versu» Mr. Madison, as Secretary... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 778 pages
...Inet. <Kil-ClS. The Supreme Court of the United States has power to issue writs of mandamus, in eases warranted by the principles and usages of law, to...courts appointed or persons holding office under the authority of the United States. Act of Congress, Sept. 24, 1780, 1 Story's Laws, 59. — SHARSWOOD.... | |
 | Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 792 pages
...courts, when proceeding as courts of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; and writs of mandamus in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law. to any courts appointed, or persons holding offices under the authority of the United States. A mandamus to an officer is said to be the exercise... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Philip Loring Spooner, Abram Daniel Smith, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frderick C. Seibold - Law reports, digests, etc - 1861 - 604 pages
...mandate. The judiciary act gives to the supreme court the power to issue writs of mandamus, In cases warranted by the principles and usages of law, to any courts appointed, or person holding office under the authority o'the United States; and that the courts of the United States... | |
 | American cyclopaedia - 1861 - 804 pages
...supreme court received power to issue writs of mandamus in cases warranted by the principles and Ages of law " to any courts appointed or persons holding office under the authority of the United States." Afterward, however, upon construction of the act, the latter clause... | |
 | Alfred Conkling - Court rules - 1864 - 950 pages
...when proceedings as courts of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, and writs of mandamus, in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law, to...courts appointed, or persons holding office, under the authority of the United States." 1. Upon the organization of the supreme court under the constitution... | |
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