An unconstitutional act is not a law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; it affords no protection; it creates no office; it is, in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed. The Pacific Reporter - Página 2071902Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - 1913 - 996 páginas
...118 US, 442, 6 Sup. Ct., 1125 (30 L. Ed. 178), where Mr. Justice Field, in speaking for the court, says: 'An unconstitutional act is not a law; it confers...inopera,tive as though it had never been passed.' "If this be true, how can any officer, who is responsible for his official acts and who has taken the... | |
| Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - 1913 - 1002 páginas
...question is Norton v. Shelby County, 118 US, 425, 30 L. Ed., 178. In that case the Supreme Court said: "An unconstitutional act is not a law. It confers no rights; it imposes no duties; it creates no office; it is, in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed;"... | |
| New Jersey. Supreme Court - 1917 - 840 páginas
...position, such adjudication is absolutely without force. It determines no right; it affords no protection. It is in legal contemplation as inoperative as though it had never been promulgated. It is as much beyond the powers or functions of the Civil Service Commission to adjudicate... | |
| Ohio. Supreme Court - 1911 - 662 páginas
...Defendants in Error. Messrs. Smith, Taft & Arter and Messrs. Griswold & White, for defendants in error. An unconstitutional act is not a law; it confers no...; it imposes no duties ; it affords no protection; creates no office; it is in legal contemplation, inoperative as though it has not been passed. Norton... | |
| Ohio. Supreme Court - 1911 - 668 páginas
...Wis., 482; Tennant's Case, 3 Neb., 409; People v. Hatch, 33 11l., 9; Cooley's Const. Lim. (7 ed.), 186. An unconstitutional act is not a law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; it affords no proArgument for Respondent. tection; it creates no office; it is, in legal contemplation, as inoperative... | |
| Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - 1911 - 694 páginas
...County, 118 US 442, 6 Sup. Ct. 1125 (30 L. Ed. 178), where Mr. Justice Field, in speaking for the court, says: "An unconstitutional act is not a law; it confers...as inoperative as though it had never been passed." If this be true, how can any officer, who is responsible for his official acts and who has taken the... | |
| American Bar Association - 1912 - 1266 páginas
...Xorton vs. Shelby County (118 US 425) : " An unconstitutional act is not law, it confers no right, it imposes no duties, it affords no protection, it...as inoperative as though it had never been passed." When invoked in a case, courts simply disregard it as so much waste paper and enforce the constitution... | |
| 1894 - 2074 páginas
...supreme court of Kansas. The act being unconstitutional, what is the standing of the instruments sued on? "An unconstitutional act is not a law. It confers...as inoperative as though it had never been passed." Norton v. Shelby Co., 118 US 441, 6 Sup. Ct. 1121. The road commissioners were authorized, by section... | |
| 1899 - 2058 páginas
...broad form, amounts to nothing else. It Is difficult to meet it by any argument beyond this statement. An unconstitutional act is not a law; it confers no...in legal contemplation, as Inoperative as though It Lad never been passed." In the case at bar the constitutionality of the act under which the defendant... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1886 - 778 páginas
...and perform the duties of an office which does not exist dejure can have no validity whatever in law. An unconstitutional act is not a law; it confers no...as inoperative as though it had never been passed. The action of a minority of the justices of the peace of the County Court of Shelby County, Tennessee,... | |
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