 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Law reports, digests, etc - 1804 - 514 pages
...that « every right, when withheld, muft have a remedy, and « every injury its proper redrefs." The government of the United States has been emphatically...government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly ceafe to deferve this high appellation, if the laws furnifh no remedy for the violation of a veiled... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Court rules - 1812 - 486 pages
...ecclesiastical, military, or maritime tribun.ils, are, for that very reason, within the cognisance of the common law courts of justice; for it is a settled...the laws furnish no remedy for the violation of a vestpd~legal right. if this obloquy is to be cast on the jurisprudence of our country, it must arise... | |
 | American literature - 1830 - 574 pages
...injury. — One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection." • • • • " The government of the United States has been emphatically...remedy for the violation of a vested legal right." After a full, profound, and satisfactory examination of the powers and jurisdiction of the Supreme... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American essays - 1830 - 580 pages
...injury. — One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection." • • • • "The government of the United States has been emphatically...certainly cease to deserve this high appellation, if tile laws furnish no remedy for the violation of a vested legal right." After a full, profound, and... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - Constitutional history - 1841 - 452 pages
...indispensable rule, that, where there is a legal right, there is a legal remedy by suit, or action of law, whenever that right is invaded.' " And afterwards,...high appellation, if the laws furnish no remedy for a vested legal right. " If this obloquy is to be cast upon the jurisprudence of our country, it must... | |
 | Samuel Smith Nicholas - Law - 1865 - 232 pages
...both as a crime. As said by the Supreme Court in an opinion delivered by Chief Justice Marshall: "The Government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of law and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve this high appellation, if the laws furnish no... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1872 - 854 pages
...present actions may be maintained. " The government of the United States," said Chief Justice MARSHALL, "has been emphatically termed a government of laws,...laws furnish no remedy for the violation of a vested right " The remedy which these claimants have selected is an action at law for the moneys withheld.... | |
 | Adolphe de Pineton marquis de Chambrun - Constitutional history - 1874 - 320 pages
...right there is a legal remedy, when that right is invaded or withheld. The opinion then proceeded: "The government of the United States has been emphatically...remedy for the violation of a vested legal right." "Is the act of delivering or witholding a commission to be considered as a mere political act, belonging... | |
 | Law - 1917 - 510 pages
...the respectful form of a petition, but he never fails to comply with the judgment of his court. "The Government of the United States has been emphatically...laws furnish no remedy for the violation of a vested right. "Questions in their nature political, or which are by the Constitution and laws SUD-^ mitted... | |
 | Law - 1875 - 722 pages
...conclusions, as will be seen by a reference to them. " The government of the United States," says the judge, "has been emphatically termed a government of laws,...remedy for the violation of a vested legal right." Again, " it follows, then, that the question, whether the legality of an act of the head of a department... | |
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The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve this high appellation, if the laws furnish no remedy for the violation of a vested legal right. 
