| Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - 1913 - 996 str.
...Field, in speaking for the court, says: 'An unconstitutional act is not a law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; it affords no protection; it...inopera,tive as though it had never been passed.' "If this be true, how can any officer, who is responsible for his official acts and who has taken the... | |
| New Jersey. Supreme Court - 1917 - 840 str.
...position, such adjudication is absolutely without force. It determines no right; it affords no protection. It is in legal contemplation as inoperative as though it had never been promulgated. It is as much beyond the powers or functions of the Civil Service Commission to adjudicate... | |
| Ohio. Supreme Court - 1911 - 668 str.
...law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; it affords no proArgument for Respondent. tection; it creates no office; it is, in legal contemplation,...as inoperative as though it had never been passed. Norton v. Shelby County, 118 US, 425; State v. Kiesewetter, 45 Ohio St., 261 ; State, ex rel, v. Halliday,... | |
| Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - 1911 - 694 str.
...Field, in speaking for the court, says: "An unconstitutional act is not a law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; it affords no protection; it...as inoperative as though it had never been passed." If this be true, how can any officer, who is responsible for his official acts and who has taken the... | |
| 1894 - 2074 str.
...the standing of the instruments sued on? "An unconstitutional act is not a law. It confers no rights; it imposes no duties; it affords no protection; it...as inoperative as though it had never been passed." Norton v. Shelby Co., 118 US 441, 6 Sup. Ct. 1121. The road commissioners were authorized, by section... | |
| 1918 - 1214 str.
...void, that it confers no rights, imposes no duties, affords no protection, and creates no office, and is in legal contemplation as inoperative as though it had never been passed. An examination of the cases supporting the rule that the corporate existence of a municipality or corporation... | |
| 1909 - 764 str.
...Norton v. Shelby County, 118 I.'. S. 442; " An unconstitutional act is not a law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; it affords no protection; it...as inoperative as though it had never been passed." But the legal practice is different: (l) The federal courts protect contract rights acquired under... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1886 - 778 str.
...can have no validity whatever in law. An unconstitutional act is not a law; it confers no rights ; it imposes no duties; it affords no protection; it...as inoperative as though it had never been passed. The action of a minority of the justices of the peace of the County Court of Shelby County, Tennessee,... | |
| 1894 - 1156 str.
...by any argument beyond this statement. An unconstitutional act is not a law; It confers no rights; it imposes no duties; it affords no protection; it...inoperative as though It " had never been passed." The result was that the bonds issued by this unconstitutional board, before the unconstitutlonality... | |
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