 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1804 - 514 sidor
...the performance of a dirty, not depending on executive difcretion, but on particular afts of congrefs and the general principles of law ? If one of the...under color of his office, by which an individual fuilains an injury, it cannot be pretended that his office alone exempts him from being fued in the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1812 - 486 sidor
...justice, his legal rights, or shall forbid a court to listen to the claim, or to issue a mandamus, directing the performance of a duty, not depending...heads of departments commits any illegal act, under colour of his office, by which an individual sustains an injury, it cannot be pretended that his office... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1830 - 580 sidor
...justice, his legal rights, or shall forbid a Court to listen to his claim ; or to issue a mandamus, directing the performance of a duty, not depending...acts of Congress, and the general principles of law." This lofty and dignified doctrine did not suit the high notions Mr. Jefl'erson seems to have entertained... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Alexander James Dallas, William Cranch, United States. Supreme Court, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard - 1870 - 708 sidor
...justice, his legal rights, or shall forbid a court to listen to the claim, or to issue a mandamus, directing the performance of a duty, not depending...acts of congress, and the general principles of law ? Marbuiy v. Madison. 1 (.'. « not be pretended that his office alone exempts him from being sued... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.), Rowland M. Stover - 1879 - 668 sidor
...justice, his legal rights, or shall forbid a court to listen to the claim, or to issue a mandamus, directing the performance of a duty, not depending...particular acts of congress and the general principles of the law 8 It is not by the office of the person to whom the writ is directed, but the nature of the... | |
 | Austin Abbott - 1879 - 612 sidor
...of justice his legal rights, or shall forbid a court to listen to the claim, or to issue a mandamus, directing the performance of a duty, not depending...discretion, but on particular acts of congress and tlie general principles of the law? It is not by the office of the person to whom the writ is directed,... | |
 | 1887 - 1038 sidor
...of justice, his legal rights, or shall forbid a court to listen to the claim, or to issue a mandamus directing the performance of a duty, not depending...Acts of Congress, and the general principles of law?" 170 [71]. "If one of the heads of departments commits any illegal act, under color of his office, by... | |
 | 1888 - 942 sidor
...justice, his legal rights, or shall forbid a court to listen to the claim, or to issue a mandamus, directing the performance of a duty, not depending...departments commits any illegal act, under color of 93 his office, by which an individual sustains an injury, it cannot be pretended that his office alone... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1889 - 476 sidor
...with the prerogatives of the Executive, it might and would command a head of department to perform a duty not depending on Executive discretion, but...Acts of Congress and the general principles of law. The mandamus might issue, but not from the Supreme Court, which had appellate jurisdiction only. In... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1889 - 484 sidor
...with the prerogatives of the Executive, it might and would command a head of department to perform a duty not depending on Executive discretion, but...Acts of Congress and the general principles of law. The mandamus might issue, but not from the Supreme Court, which had appellate jurisdiction only. In... | |
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... what is there, in the exalted station of the officer, which shall bar a citizen from asserting, in a court of justice, his legal rights, or shall forbid a court to listen to the claim, or to issue a mandamus, directing the performance of a duty, not... 
