 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby - Constitutional law - 1910 - 804 pages
...process of law, or to take private property without just compensation. . . . No man in this county is so high that he is above the law. No officer of...Government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of that law and are bound to obey it. ... It cannot be, then, that when, in a suit between two citizens... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby - Constitutional law - 1910 - 900 pages
...without jnst compensation. . . . Xo man in this county is so high that he is above the law. Xo oAeer of the law may set that law at defiance, with impunity....officers of the Government, from the highest to the low aro creatures of that law and are bound to obey it. . . . It can1*', then, that when, in a suit... | |
 | Ernst Freund - Administrative law - 1911 - 718 pages
...House of Representatives by Chief Justice Carter. Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 US 168, 26 L. Ed. 377. No man in this country is so high that he is above...highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law and are bound to obey it. It is the only supreme power in our system of government, and every man who by... | |
 | Ernst Freund - Administrative law - 1911 - 716 pages
...Carter. Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 US 168, 26 L. Ed. 377. Newman in this country js__£o_high that^jie is above the law. No officer of the law may set that law aF defiance witE~impunity. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 726 pages
...United States v. Lee, it said that "no man in this countn is so high that he is above the law," and that "all the officers of the Government, from the highest to the lowest, are crcature> of the law, and are bound to obey it." But it seems that some officers are above the law... | |
 | Corporations - 1915 - 702 pages
...or property without due process of law, or to take private property without just compensation. . . . No man in this country is so high that he is above...highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it. It is the only supreme power in our system of government, and every man who by... | |
 | William Hiram Courtright, George S. Berry - Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 736 pages
...adjudged valid and the unauthorized condition rejected. — Pershing v. Wolfe, 6 A. 410, 40 P. 856. (h) All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are but agents with delegated powers, and if they act beyond the scope of those delegated powers their... | |
 | United States - Military law - 1915 - 816 pages
...19 How., 73, 78; US v. Stewart, id. 79; Marbury v. Madison. 1 Crunch, 137.) Powers of officers. — All the officers of the Government, from the highest to the lowest, are but agents with delegated powers, and if they act beyond thy scope of their delegated powers their... | |
 | George A. Malcolm - Law - 1916 - 824 pages
...freedom prevails, as being the essence of slavery itself." *0 Mr. Justice Miller said in another case: "No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set the law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest,... | |
 | Hannis Taylor - Administrative law - 1917 - 1038 pages
...question ever submitted to it, the Court answered, in the majestic words of Mr. Justice Miller, that "No man in this country is so high that he is above...the Government, from the highest to the lowest, are creations of the law and are bound to obey it. It is the only supreme power in our system of government,... | |
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No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it. 
