| Connecticut. Supreme Court of Errors - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 664 pages
...determined by the character of the act itself. State r. Si nub. "A ministerial duty, the performance of which may in proper cases be required of the head...discretion. It is a simple definite duty arising under conditions admitted or proved to exist, and imposed by law." Ch. J. CHASE, in State of Mississippi... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1867 - 732 pages
...ministerial and executive, which are by no means equivalent in import. A ministerial duty, the performance of which may, in proper cases, be required of the...discretion. It is a simple, definite duty, arising under conditions admitted or proved to exist, and imposed by law. The case of Marbury v. Madison, Secretary... | |
| Impeachments - 1868 - 542 pages
...equivalent in import. A ministerial duty, the performance of which may, in proper cases, be required of a head of a department by judicial process, is one in...discretion. It is a simple, definite duty, arising under conditions admitted or proved to exist, or imposed by law. After citing some cases of merely ministerial... | |
| Andrew Johnson - Impeachments - 1868 - 532 pages
...in import. A ministerial duty, the performance of which may, in proper cases, be required of a bead of a department by judicial process, is one in respect...discretion. It is a simple, definite duty, arising uuder conditions admitted or proved to exist, or imposed by law. After citing some cases of merely... | |
| Andrew Johnson - Impeachments - 1868 - 532 pages
...duty, the performance of which may, in proper cases, be required of a head of a department by jndicial process, is one in respect to which nothing is left...discretion. It is a simple, definite duty, arising under conditions admitted or proved to exist, or imposed by law." After citing some cases of merely ministerial... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 802 pages
...ministerial duty in the relation in which we have been considering it: "A ministerial duty, the performance of which may in proper cases be required of the head...nothing is left to discretion. It is a simple, definite dut}-, arising under circumstances admitted or proved to exist and imposed by law." The action of the... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1870 - 800 pages
...ministerial duty in the relation in which we have been considering it: "A ministerial duty, the performance of which may in proper cases be required of the head...circumstances admitted or proved to exist and imposed by law." The action of the officers of the land department, with which we are asked to interfere in this case,... | |
| Edward McPherson - Reconstruction - 1871 - 678 pages
..."ministerial" and "executive," which are by to means equivalent in import. A ministerial duty, the performance of which may in proper cases be required of the head...discretion. It is a simple, definite duty, arising under conditions admitted or proved to exist or imposed by law. that the performance of this duty might be... | |
| Edward McPherson - Freed persons - 1871 - 670 pages
...executive," which are by EO means equivalent in import. A ministerial duty, the performance of which Clay r property of persons of color shall be put in issue,...pleas of the State, where the violence, fraud, or inju conditions admitted or proved to exist or imposed by law. The case of Marbury гч. Madison, Secretary... | |
| William Whiting - Executive power - 1871 - 736 pages
...think, a confounding of the terms ministerial and executive, which ure by no means equivalent in import. required of the head of a department, by judicial...discretion. It is a simple, definite duty, arising under conditions admitted or proved to exist, and imposed by law. The case of Marbury v. Madison, Secretary... | |
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