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" An unconstitutional act is not a law; it confers no rights ; it imposes no duties ; it affords no protection ; it creates no office ; it is, in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed. "
Reports of Civil and Criminal Cases Decided by the Court of Appeals of ... - Page 608
by Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, William Littell, Alexander Keith Marshall - 1913
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court And ..., Volume 89

New Jersey. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 840 pages
...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...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Ohio, Volume 84

Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 662 pages
...Defendants in Error. Messrs. Smith, Taft & Arter and Messrs. Griswold & White, for defendants in error. An unconstitutional act is not a law; it confers no...; it imposes no duties ; it affords no protection; creates no office; it is in legal contemplation, inoperative as though it has not been passed. Norton...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Ohio, Volume 83

Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 668 pages
...Wis., 482; Tennant's Case, 3 Neb., 409; People v. Hatch, 33 11l., 9; Cooley's Const. Lim. (7 ed.), 186. An unconstitutional act is not a 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...
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Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association, Volume 37

American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1912 - 1266 pages
...Xorton vs. Shelby County (118 US 425) : " An unconstitutional act is not law, it confers no right, it imposes no duties, it affords no protection, it...as inoperative as though it had never been passed." When invoked in a case, courts simply disregard it as so much waste paper and enforce the constitution...
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The Federal Reporter: Cases Argued and Determined in the ..., Volumes 61-62

Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 2074 pages
...supreme court of Kansas. The act being unconstitutional, what is the standing of the instruments sued on? "An unconstitutional act is not a law. It confers...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...
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The Federal Reporter: Cases Argued and Determined in the ..., Volumes 95-96

Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 2058 pages
...broad form, amounts to nothing else. It Is difficult to meet it by any argument beyond this statement. An unconstitutional act is not a law; it confers no...in legal contemplation, as Inoperative as though It Lad never been passed." In the case at bar the constitutionality of the act under which the defendant...
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The Pacific Reporter, Volume 69

Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 1172 pages
...or all bad. Mr. Justice Field, In Norton v. Shelby Co., 118 US 425, 15 Sup. Ot. 1121, 30 L. Ed. 178, says: "An unconstitutional act is not a law; it confers...as inoperative as though it had never been passed." I have no desire to dispute the familiar and well-recognized rule of law, when part of a statute is...
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The Pacific Reporter, Volume 174

Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 1214 pages
...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...
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Atlantic Reporter, Volume 68

Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 1160 pages
...of commissioner never became a law, and that, therefore, the office never came into existence; that "an unconstitutional act is not a law — it confers...as inoperative as though it had never been passed." Notwithstanding the great weight which the opinion of so distinguished a jurist carries with it, notwithstanding...
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Atlantic Reporter, Volume 28

Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1156 pages
...broad form, amounts to nothing else. It Is difficult to meet it by any argument beyond this statement. An unconstitutional act is not a law; It confers no...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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