 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Thomas Pendleton Burnett - 1844 - 252 páginas
...Maine, where it prescribes an oath of office to all legislative, executive, and judicia officers, imply a delegation of a portion of the sovereign power to, and possession of it, by the person iilling the office, and that a person clothed with a resolve of the legislature, with no other powers... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1896 - 942 páginas
...The following citation from 3 Maine Rep. 481 on a similar question is in point: "We apprehend that the term 'office' implies a delegation of a portion of the sovereign power, and the possession of it by the person rilling the office ; and the1 exercise of such power within... | |
 | Philip Eastman - 1849 - 790 páginas
...name of a candidate voted for. Opinion of the Justices, xxv. 567. IV. COMPATIBILITY OF OFFICES. 1. The term, " office", implies a delegation of a portion of the sovereign power of the legislative, judicial, or executive, departments of the government An employment or service,... | |
 | New York (State). Superior Court (New York), James Clark Spencer, Samuel Jones - 1878 - 636 páginas
...is a manifest difference between an office and an employment under the government. We apprehend that the term ' office ' implies a delegation of a portion...correct discharge of the duties of such office." The question was directly put before the learned judges for decision, and they returned a sharply defined... | |
 | California, California. Constitutional Convention - 1880 - 648 páginas
...a manifest distinction between an office and an employment under the government. We apprehend that the term 'office' implies a delegation of a portion of the sovereign power, and the possession of it by the person filling the office.' " That seems to be the true criterion,... | |
 | California - 1880 - 648 páginas
...a manifest distinction between an office and an employment under the government. We apprehend that the term 'office' implies a delegation of a portion of the sovereign power, and the possession of it by the person filling the office.' " That seems to be the true criterion,... | |
 | Floyd Russell Mechem - 1890 - 904 páginas
...officer." ' " We apprehend that the term ' office,' " said the judges of the supreme court of Maine, "implies a delegation of a portion of the sovereign power to, and the possession of it by, the person filling the office ; and the exercise of such power within legal... | |
 | Massachusetts. Attorney General's Office - 1893 - 192 páginas
...and it has been judicially declared that an office, as distinguished from an employment, involves " a delegation of a portion of the sovereign power to,...possession of it by, the person filling the office." The question whether this clerk is an officer or an employee of the city of Lawrence is easily answered,... | |
 | William John Tossell - 1915 - 754 páginas
...the sovereign functions of the government to be exercised by him for the benefit of the public. It implies a delegation of a portion of the sovereign power to, and the possession of it by, the person filling the office. In its effects it will bind the rights of others... | |
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office,' implies a delegation of a portion of the sovereign power to, and the possession of it by, the person filling the office ; and the exercise of such power within legal limits constitutes the correct discharge of the duties of such office. 
