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
| Ernst Freund - Administrative law - 1911 - 716 pages
...Carter. Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 US 168, 26 L. Ed. 377. Newman in this country js__£o_high that^jie is above the law. No officer of the law may set that law aF defiance witE~impunity. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 726 pages
...United States v. Lee, it said that "no man in this countn is so high that he is above the law," and that "all the officers of the Government, from the highest to the lowest, are crcature> of the law, and are bound to obey it." But it seems that some officers are above the law... | |
| Corporations - 1915 - 680 pages
...to take private property without just compensation. . . . 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 - Military law - 1915 - 816 pages
...19 How., 73, 78; US v. Stewart, id. 79; Marbury v. Madison. 1 Crunch, 137.) Powers of officers. — All the officers of the Government, from the highest to the lowest, are but agents with delegated powers, and if they act beyond thy scope of their delegated powers their... | |
| William Hiram Courtright, George S. Berry - Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 736 pages
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| George A. Malcolm - Law - 1916 - 824 pages
...case: "No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set the law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of...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... | |
| Hannis Taylor - Administrative law - 1917 - 1038 pages
...answered, in the majestic words of Mr. Justice Miller, that "No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that...the Government, from the highest to the lowest, are creations of the law and are bound to obey it. It is the only supreme power in our system of government,... | |
| Heman Gerald Chapin - Torts - 1917 - 754 pages
...responsible.48 Furthermore the duty violated must not have been due l1iah that he is above the law. * • * All the officers of the government, from the highest...are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it. * * * Shall it be said in the face of all this, and of the acknowledged right of the judiciary to decide,... | |
| United States - Military law - 1917 - 1716 pages
...How., 73, 78; US v. Stewart, id. 79; Marbury f. Madison, 1 Cranch, 137.) Powers of officers.—All the officers of the Government, from the highest to the lowest, are but agents with delegated powers, and if they act beyond the scope of their delegated powers their... | |
| United States - Military law - 1917 - 1716 pages
...How., 73, 78; US v. Stewart, id. 70; Marbury f. Madison, 1 Cranch, 137.) Powers of officers.—All the officers of the Government, from the highest to the lowest, are but agents with delegated powers, and if they act beyond the scope of their delegated powers their... | |
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