 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Court rules - 1812 - 486 pages
...law, to any courts appointed, or persons holding office, under the authority of the United States." The secretary of state, being a person holding an...duties which its words purport to confer and assign. The constitution vests the whole judicial power of the United States in one supreme court, and such... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...law, to any courts appointed, or persons holding office, under the authority of the United States." The secretary of state, being a person holding an...mandamus to such an officer, it must be because the I law is unconstitutional, and therefore absolutely incapable of conferring the authority and assigning... | |
 | John Fulton - Constitutional history - 1864 - 582 pages
...law, to any courts appointed, or persons holding office, under the authority of the United States. ' u The Secretary of State, being a person holding an...duties which its words purport to confer and assign. " The Constitution vests the whole judicial power of the United States in one Supreme Court, and such... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Alexander James Dallas, William Cranch, United States. Supreme Court, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 708 pages
...law, to any courts appointed, or persons holding office, under the authority of the United States." The secretary of state, being a person holding an...duties which its words purport to confer and assign. The constitution vests the whole judicial power of the United States in one supreme court, and such... | |
 | James Lambert High - Extraordinary remedies - 1874 - 726 pages
...law, to any courts appointed, or persons holding office, under the authority of the United States.1 The secretary of state, being a person holding an office under the authority of the United States, js precisely within the letter of the description; and if this court is not authorized to issue... | |
 | Law - 1875 - 722 pages
...of law, to any courts appointed or persons holding office under the authority of the United States. The secretary of state, being a person holding an...is precisely within the letter of the description," etc., p. 281. The only point really decided in that case was, that that very law was unconstitutional,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 758 pages
...law, to any courte appointed, or persons holding office, under the authority of the United States." The Secretary of State, being a person holding an...officer, it must be because the law is unconstitutional, anil therefore absolutely incapable of conferring I he authority, and assigning the duties which its... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 942 pages
...law, to any courts appointed, or persons holding office, under the authority of the United States." The secretary of state, being a person holding an...duties which its words purport to confer and assign. The constitution vests the whole judicial power of the United States in one supreme court, and such... | |
 | Emlin McClain - Constitutional law - 1900 - 1134 pages
...law, to any courts appointed, or persons holding office, under the authority of the United States.' "The Secretary of State, being a person holding an...court is not authorized to issue a writ of mandamus to snch an officer, it must be because the law is unconstitutional, and therefore absolutely incapable... | |
 | Emlin McClain - Constitutional law - 1900 - 1126 pages
...the authority of the United States.' "The Secretary of State, being a person holding an office nnder the authority of the United States, is precisely within...to issue a writ of mandamus to such an officer, it mii-i be because the law is unconstitutional, and therefore absolutely incapable of conferring the... | |
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The act to establish the judicial courts of the United States authorizes the Supreme Court "to issue writs of mandamus, in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law, to any courts appointed, or persons holding office, under the authority of... 
