 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
 | 1918 - 880 pages
...United States and it is appropriated to lawful public uses. " 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 government from the highest to the lowest are creations of the law and are bound to obey it. It is... | |
 | 1918 - 918 pages
...United States and it is appropriated to lawful public uses. " 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 government from the highest to the lowest are creations of the law and are bound to obey it. It is... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby - Germany - 1918 - 232 pages
...august judicial tribunal in the world, "no man in this country is so high that he is above the law. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of that law and are bound to obey it." 1 This same doctrine is applied in all the States of the Union.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 1090 pages
...Bros. Co., 248 US 285, 39 Sup. Ct. 124, 63 L. Ed. — . "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" United States v. Le«, 106 US 196, 220, 1 Sup. Ct 240, 261 (27 L. Ed. 171). The right of possession... | |
 | James Brown Scott, United States. Supreme Court - Constitutional law - 1919 - 572 pages
...contention of the United States, finely and impressively said : ' 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.' Therefore, it is well settled, by a long line of decisions, beginning with Marbury v. Madison (1 Cranch,... | |
 | Frederick Albert Cleveland, Joseph Schafer - Democracy - 1919 - 522 pages
...of American public law in these words: "No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. All the officers of the Government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of that law and are bound to obey it." One of the oldest of our State Constitutions, that of Massachusetts... | |
 | Oklahoma Corporation Commission - Corporations - 1919 - 644 pages
...was brought against agents of the government and could not be prosecuted in the State Court, since all the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, were- creatures of law, and within their proper spheres exercised only such powers as were delegated... | |
 | Henry Clifford Spurr, Ellsworth Nichols - Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 1248 pages
...the suit \vas against agents of the government and could not be prosecuted in the state court, since all the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, were creatures of law, and within their proper spheres exercised only such powers as were delegated... | |
 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1920 - 852 pages
...the United States Supreme Court, in the following words: " No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that...All the officers of the government, from the highest lo the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it. " It is the only supreme power in... | |
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