 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - 1846 - 720 Seiten
...A. 769.|| [See further, tit. "COVENANT," and tit. "SET-OFF;"] || tit. " CONDIOFFICES AND OFFICERS. office is a right to exercise a public function or...and to take the fees and emoluments belonging to it. (a) An officer is one who is lawfully invested with an office.(6) (a) Shelf, on Mortm. 797; 3 S. &... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1881 - 752 Seiten
...constituents. MANDAMUS. Submitted Jan. 23. Granted Feb. 11. Maybury d Conely for relator. Office is the right to exercise a public function or employment,...and to take the fees and emoluments belonging to it, both in the case of a salaried office and of those offices that are com*pensated by fees where the... | |
 | Indiana. General Assembly. Senate - 1863 - 850 Seiten
...define "office" to consist in " a right and coiresponding duty to execute a public function, trust or employment, and to take the fees and emoluments belonging to it." Chief Justice Marshall, 2d Marshall's Reports, p. 96, inquires: " Is the Agent of Fortifications an... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1869 - 144 Seiten
...of the State, is another and quite a different question. What is an office? "An office," says Bacon, "is a right to exercise a public function or employment,...and to take the fees and emoluments belonging to it. An officer is one who is lawfully invested with an office. It is said that the word officium principally... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court, Eugene Davis - 1869 - 206 Seiten
...of the State is another, and quite a different question. What is an office? "An office," says Bacon, "is a right to exercise a public function, or employment,...and to take the fees and emoluments belonging to it. An officer is one who is lawfully invested with an office. It is said that the word offidum principally... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1870 - 858 Seiten
...of the State, is another and quite a different question. What is an office? "An office (says Bacon) is a right to exercise a public function, or employment,...and to take the fees and emoluments belonging to it An officer is one who is lawfully invested with an office. It is said that the word officium principally... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1872
...of the State, is another and quite a different question. What is an office? "An office," says Bacon, "is a right to exercise a public function or employment,...and to take the fees and emoluments belonging to it. An officer is one who is lawfully invested with an office. It is said that the word officium principally... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1870 - 900 Seiten
...Vente, n. 32 ; 1 Bouvier, Inst. n. 577 et »eq. And see ACCEPTANCE or CONTRACTS ; ASSENT ; BID. OFFICE. A right to exercise a public function or employment,...and to take the fees and emoluments belonging to it. Shelford, Mi>rtin. 797 ; Cruise, Dig. Index ; 3 Serg. & R. Penn. 149. Judicial offices are those -which... | |
 | 1888 - 556 Seiten
...will render the law applicable to the facts in hand more evident. An office has been defined to be a right to exercise a public function or employment,...and to take the fees and emoluments belonging to it; and Chief Justice Marshall says: "He who performs the duties of that office is an officer." From the... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. Senate - 1871 - 1004 Seiten
...an hereditament, or a thing capable of being inherited." — ') Kenf s Com., 453. Bouvier says : " An office is a right to exercise a public function or employment, and to take the fees belonging to it." — Bouvier's Law Diet., title " Office." Webster defines the word " office," " A... | |
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is a right to exercise a public function or employment, and to take the fees and emoluments belonging to it. 
