 No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it.  Albany Law Journal - Page 171883Full view - About this book
 | Law - 1884 - 438 pages
...principle the exemption of liability from suit rests. * * * No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that...are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it. Courts of justice are established not only to decide upon the controverted rights of the citizens as... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 840 pages
...for the protection and enforcement of that right ; " " that no man in this country is so high that he is above the law ; no officer of the law may set that...are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it." Upon examination of the doctrine that, except where Congress has provided, the United States cannot... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 916 pages
...Milligan, 4 Wall., 2; Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 US, 168. No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that...it. It is the only supreme power in our system of government, and every man who by accepting office participates in its functions is only the more strongly... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 1086 pages
...Cartter. Kitbourn v. Thompson, 103 U. 8., 168 [XXVI., 8771. Nip man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that law at defiance, with impunity. AH the officers of the pQovernment, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law and arc... | |
 | John Innes Clark Hare - Constitutional law - 1888 - 764 pages
...the government. No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law can set that law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the law, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law and bound to obey it. Could it be said,... | |
 | Abbott Lawrence Lowell - Political science - 1889 - 250 pages
...article of the state religion. o v. THE LIMITS OP SOVEKEIGNTY. No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that...it. It is the only supreme power in our system of government. — Mr. JUSTICE MILLER, in United States «. Lee, 106 US 196. AMONG the theories of jurists... | |
 | Law - 1903 - 658 pages
...lawful owners. "No man in this country," he said, "is so high that he is above the law. No officer of4he law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All...it. It is the only supreme power in our system of government, and every man who, by accepting office, participates in its functions, is only the more... | |
 | Abbott Lawrence Lowell - Political science - 1889 - 246 pages
...article of the state religion. V. THE LIMITS OP SOVEREIGNTY. No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that Jaw at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 952 pages
...patent title was fraudulent and void. Morton v. Nebraska, 88 US 21 Wall. 060 (22 L. ed. 039). All of the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are but agents with delegated powers, and if they act ix>yond the scope of those powers their acts do not... | |
 | Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, Henry Goddard Leach, George Henry Payne, D. G. Redmond - History - 1891 - 738 pages
...Arlington case : " No man in this country is so high that he is above the law ; no officer of the law can set that law at defiance with impunity; all the officers...it. It is the only supreme power in our system of government, and every man who, by accepting office, participates in its functions, is only the more... | |
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