 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.  Lawyers' Reports Annotated - 411. lappuse1910Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - 1913 - 996 lapas
...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 lapas
...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 lapas
...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 lapas
...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 lapas
...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 lapas
...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 lapas
...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... | |
 | 1899 - 2058 lapas
...assumed Incumbent. That position, although not stated In this broad form, amounts to nothing else. It Is difficult to meet it by any argument beyond...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... | |
 | 1894 - 2074 lapas
...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... | |
 | 1906 - 1164 lapas
...assumed incumbent. That position, although not stated in this broad form, amounts to nothing else. It Is difficult to meet it by any argument beyond...as inoperative as though it had never been passed." See, also, Hildroth v. Mclntire, 1 J. .T. Marsh (Ky.) 200, 10 Am. Dec. 61; Carleton v. People, 10 Mich.... | |
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