Where a court has jurisdiction, it has a right to decide every question which occurs in the cause; and whether its decision be correct or otherwise, its judgment, until reversed, is regarded as binding in every other court. But if it act without authority,... United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court - Page 627by United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1888Full view - About this book
| Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 942 pages
...jurisdiction attached. (Porter v. Purdy, 29 NY (2 Tiffany), 111; Betts v. Bagley, 12 Pick. 672.) 3. When a court has jurisdiction it has a right to decide every question that arises in the cause. (Elliott v. Peirsol, 1 Peters, 340; 2 Peters, 169; Shawhan v. Loffer, 24... | |
| Elijah Paine, United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - Law reports, digests, etc - 1827 - 748 pages
...erroneous, that is, good and valid, until reversed, or void aad a nullity ab initio. Where a Court possesses jurisdiction, it has a right to decide every question...judgment, until reversed, is regarded as binding. But if it act without authority, its judgments are considered as nullities, and form no Jiar to a recovery... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, Richard Peters - Court rules - 1829 - 758 pages
...down. " We agree, that if the county court had jurisdiction, its decisions would be conclusive. When a court has jurisdiction, it has a right to decide every question that occurs in the cause ; and whether its decisions be correct or not, its judgment, until reversed,... | |
| New York (State). Legislature. Senate - New York (State) - 1831 - 608 pages
...otherwise, its judgments, until revised, are regarded as binding in every other court ; but if it acts without authority, its judgments and orders are regarded...nullities, they are not voidable, but simply void, and form no bar to a remedy sought in opposition to them, even prior to a reversal. They constitute... | |
| Alabama. Supreme Court, George Noble Stewart - Law reports, digests, etc - 1832 - 558 pages
...the original cause of action having passed in remiueticalum." At the same time, e it was held, that "where a Court has jurisdiction, it has a right to...until reversed, is regarded as binding in every other JANBARY im. Court But if it act without authority, its judgments or X-^^V~^- ' orders are regarded... | |
| Jacob D. Wheeler - Common law - 1835 - 618 pages
...'"cmbr.i , , , . ,. . , cesiheiuci reversed, are regarded as binding in every other court. But if dems.* it act without authority, its judgments and orders...nullities. They are not voidable, but simply void; and form no bar to a recovery sought, even prior to reversal in opposition to them. Thc'y constitute... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1844 - 800 pages
...that their decisions are conclusive ; " it has a right to decide 'every question which occurs in a cause, and whether its decision be correct or otherwise, its judgment, until reversed, is binding on every other court." 1 Peters, 340. In Voorhees v. The Bank of the United States the same... | |
| Law - 1845 - 490 pages
...this principle been more emphatically laid downrthan by the supreme court of the United States. " ' Where a court has jurisdiction, it has a right to...nullities. They are not voidable, but simply void ; and form no bar to a recovery sought, even prior to a reversal, in opposition to them. They constitute... | |
| Samuel Owen - Law - 1845 - 434 pages
...this principle been more emphatically laid down, than by the supreme court of the United States. " Where a court has jurisdiction, it has a right to...nullities. They are not voidable, but simply void; and form no bar to a recovery sought, even prior to a reversal, in opposition to them. They constitute... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 852 pages
...it as if it had been pleaded. So in Fisher v. Harnden, 1 Paine, 58, Mr. Justice Livingston said, " Where a court has jurisdiction, it has a right to decide every question that occurs in the cause ; and, whether its decision be correct or otherwise, its judgment, until reversed,... | |
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