 A public office is the right, authority and duty, created and conferred by law, by which for a given period, either fixed by law or enduring at the pleasure of the creating power, an individual is invested with some portion of the sovereign functions...  The South Western Reporter - Page 551924Full view - About this book
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 830 pages
...office of master commissioner is then a right, authority and duty created and confirmed by law, by which an individual is invested with some portion of the...be exercised by him for the benefit of the public. Mechem on Public Office and Officers, sec. 1 ; State ex rel. v. Brennan, 49 Ohio St., 33. The probate... | |
 | Floyd Russell Mechem - Administrative law - 1890 - 904 pages
...d» Facto. § 1. Public Office and Officer defined. — A public office is the right, authority and duty, created and conferred by law, by § which for...of the government, to be exercised by him for the beneiit of the public.1 The individual so invested is a public officer.* i An office, saysBiACKSTONE,... | |
 | William John Tossell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 754 pages
...is a public officer? Mechem, Pub. Off. and Off. says: "A public office is the right, authority and duty, created and conferred by law, by which, for...or enduring at the pleasure of the creating power, &n individual is invested with some portion of the sovereign functions of the government, to be exercised... | |
 | William John Tossell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 774 pages
...a public office and a public; officer in these words: "A public office is the right, authority and duty, created and conferred by law, by which for a given period, either fixed by law or enCuyahoga County. during at the pleasure of the creating power, an individual is invested with some... | |
 | William John Tossell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 892 pages
...and duty created and conferred by law, by which for a given period, either fixed by law, or ending at the pleasure of the creating power, an individual is invested with some part of the sovereign functions of the government to be exercised by him for the benefit of the public.... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 1004 pages
...conferring of an office involves a delegation to the individual of some of the sovereign functions of government, to be exercised by him for the benefit of the public; that some portion of the sovereignty of the country, either legislative, executive, or judicial, attaches,... | |
 | Canada - 1898 - 890 pages
...Public Officers, sec. 1. (d) Ibid. sa. 2, 3, 5. the individual of some of the sovereign functions of Government, to be exercised by him for the benefit of the public — that some portion of the sovereignty of the country, either legislative, executive or judicial... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 1288 pages
...first and second sections of his treatise on Public Officers, defines a public office as one in which an individual is invested with some portion of the sovereign functions of the government. He cites the remark of Chief Justice Marshall in US v. Maurice, 2 Brock. 96, Fed. Cas. No. 15,747:... | |
 | Philippines - Law - 1987 - 284 pages
...ADMINISTRATIVE LAW; PUBLIC OFFICERS, PUBEIC OFFICE, DEFINED. — A public office is the right, authority, and duty created and conferred by law, by which for a...be exercised by him for the benefit of the public (Mechem, Public Offices and Officers, Sec. 1). 2. In.; ID.; PUBLIC OFFICE, NATURE OF RIGHT THERETO.... | |
 | West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 832 pages
...conferring of an office involves a delegation to the individual of some of the sovereign functions of government, to be exercised by him for the benefit of the public: that some portion of the sovereignty of the country, either legislative, executive or judicial, attaches,... | |
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