 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Great Britain - 1866 - 780 pages
...Inet. 601-«18. The Supreme С шН of the United States has power to issue writs of mandamus, in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law, to any courts appointed or persons liold'ng office under the authority of the United States. Act of Congress, Sept. 24, 1789, ] Story's... | |
 | Martin Van Buren - Political parties - 1867 - 454 pages
...writs of prohibition to the district courts in certain cases — " and 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 the United States " Now the plain intention of this clause of the sentence was... | |
 | Martin Van Buren - Political parties - 1867 - 466 pages
...issue writs of prohibition to the district courts in certain cases — "and writs of mandamus, in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law, to any courts appointed or persons holding ollice under the authority of the United States " Now the plain intention of this clause of the sentence... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 802 pages
...Opinion of the court. as courts of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; and writs of mandamus, in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law, to any courts appointed or persons holding offices under the authority of the United States. "A mandamus to an officer," he observes, "is held... | |
 | Law - 1892 - 554 pages
...on the ground that they were anthorized by an act of Congress 'to issue writs of nuiminmiis in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law, to any courts appointed, or persons holding office under the anthority of the United States.' The first question, then, that naturally presented itself... | |
 | 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
...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 the United States." The secretary of state, being a person holding an office... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1870 - 800 pages
...Opinion of the court. as courts of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; and writs of mandamus, in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law, to any courts appointed or persons holding offices under the authority of the United States. "A mandamus to an officer," he observes, " ia held... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1870 - 840 pages
...courts when proceeding as courts of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, and writs of mandamus, in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law, to any courts appointed or 2)ersons holding office under the authority of the United States." I shall not attempt, in the face... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1875 - 900 pages
...judiciary act of 1T93 the United States supreme court received power 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 the United States;" but in Marbury T. Madison, 1 Cranch, 137, the latter clause... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 740 pages
..." The Supreme Court shall have power to issue writs of mandamus in cases warranted by the processes and usages of law to any courts appointed or persons holding office under the authority of the United States." The 14th section, referring to certain courts of the United... | |
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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 the United States. 
