 | Joseph Henry Budd - Civil procedure - 1902 - 800 pages
...attorney-general in the court of the king's bench. Such, proceeding by information is in the nature of a criminal prosecution, as well to punish the usurper by a fine...franchise, as to oust him or seize it for the crown ; but the fine imposed was merely nominal.51 Under the constitution of California of 1879 *ne Superior Courts... | |
 | Horace La Fayette Wilgus - Corporation law - 1902 - 1252 pages
...which has fallen into disuse ; and the information which has superseded the old writ is defined to be- a criminal method of prosecution, as well to punish...for the usurpation of the franchise, as to oust him, and seize it for the crown. It has, for a long time, been applied to the mere purpose of trying the... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - Law - 1903 - 802 pages
...for the usurpation of the franchise, as well as to oust him or seize it for the Crown (rri). But it hath long been applied to the mere purpose of trying the civil right, seizing the franchise, or ousting the wrongful possessor ; the fine being nominal only (n). It is theretO... | |
 | Law - 1905 - 984 pages
...disuse, and the proceeding by Information was substituted. Of this latter form, Blackstone says: "This la properly a criminal method of prosecution, as well...the usurpation of the franchise, as to oust him or to seize it for the crown, but hath long been applied to the mere purposes of trying the civil right,... | |
 | Leslie Jay Tompkins - Corporation law - 1908 - 1188 pages
...which has fallen into disuse ; and the information which has superseded the old writ is defined to be a criminal method of prosecution, as well to punish...for the usurpation of the franchise, as to oust him, and seize 2 it for the crown. It has, for a long time, been applied to the mere purpose of trying the... | |
 | Albert Constantineau - Administrative law - 1910 - 860 pages
...information in the nature of quo warranto, which has generally superseded the old writ, was originally a criminal method of prosecution, as well to punish the usurper by a fine for the iisurpation of the franchise, as to oust him, or seize it for the Crown. But, in England, it long ago... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1911 - 888 pages
...place was supplied by an information in the nature of a quo loarraiito, which, in its origin, was " a criminal method of prosecution, as well to punish...franchise, as to oust him, or seize it for the crown." 3 Bl. Com. 263. Long before our revolution, however, it lost its character as a criminal proceeding... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 1236 pages
...appointed agencies and in the name of the state. While it is not essentially criminal, yet it is a quasi criminal method of prosecution as well to punish the usurper by a fine for the usurpation of the office as to oust him. Bailey on Habeas Corpus (Quo Warrante) ยง 315; Spelling, Extraordinary Remedies,... | |
 | William Blackstone - English law - 1916 - 1380 pages
...wherein the process is speedier arid the judgment not quite so decisive. This is properly a eriminal method of prosecution, as well to punish the usurper...the franchise, as to oust him, or seize it for the erown: but hath long been applied to the mere purposes of trying the civil right, seizing the franchise,... | |
 | Thomas Johnson Michie - Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 1154 pages
...ancient writ of quo warranto, which, in its nature was a method of criminal prosecution, as well as to punish the usurper by a fine for the usurpation of the franchise as to oust him from it. The information has subsequently been applied to the mere purpose of trying the civil right,... | |
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This is properly a criminal method of prosecution, as well to punish the usurper by a fine for the usurpation of the franchise, as to oust him, or seize it for the crown; but hath long been applied to the mere purposes of trying the civil right, seizing... 
