 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 996 pages
...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... | |
 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1002 pages
...Supreme Court said: "An unconstitutional act is not a law. It confers no rights; it imposes no duties; it creates no office; it is, in legal contemplation,...as inoperative as though it had never been passed;" and laid down the doctrine that the acts of public officers exercising authority under an unconstitutional... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 668 pages
...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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 694 pages
...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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 2074 pages
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1909 - 764 pages
...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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 778 pages
...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,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1156 pages
...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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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 inopera,tive as though it had never been passed. 
