| United States. Congress. House - 956 pages
...universally admitted, that whenever power or jurisdiction is delegated to any public officer or tribunal, and its exercise is confided to his or their discretion, the acts done in the exercise of that discretion, and within the authority conferred, are binding as to the... | |
| Alabama. Supreme Court, George Noble Stewart, Benjamin Faneuil Porter - 1837 - 516 pages
...rule of equity, or principle of law or justice. He also declaied it to be an "universal principle, that where power or jurisdiction is delegated to any...the acts so done, are binding and valid, as to the subject matter; and individual rights will not bo disturbed, collaterally, for any thing done, in the... | |
| John Quincy Adams - 1841 - 140 pages
...universally admitted, that, whenever power or jurisdiction is delegated to any public officer or tribunal, and its exercise is confided to his or their discretion, the acts done in the exercise of that discretion, and within the authority conferred, are binding as to the... | |
| Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1851 - 860 pages
...et al. 6 Peters 729, " It is a universal principle that when power or jurisdiction is delegated to a public officer or tribunal over a subject matter,...discretion, the acts so done are binding and valid as to the subject matter, and individual rights -will not be disturbed collaterally for any thing done in the... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - 1851 - 340 pages
...universally admitted, that, whenever power or jurisdiction is delegated to any public/ officer or tribunal, and its exercise is confided to his or their discretion, the acts done in the exercise of that discretion, and within the authority conferred, are binding as to the... | |
| United States. Attorney-General - 1852 - 836 pages
...universally admitted, that whenever power or jurisdiction is delegated to any public officer or tribunal, and its exercise is confided to his or their discretion, the acts done in the exercise of that discretion, and within the authority conferred, are binding as to the... | |
| George Ticknor Curtis - 1854 - 674 pages
...which were necessary to its being issued. " It is a universal principle," says the Supreme Court, " that where power or jurisdiction is delegated to any public officer or tribunal over a subject-matter, and the exercise is confided to his or their discretion, the acts so done are binding... | |
| 1855 - 804 pages
...authority previously given, or subsequently ratified, which is equivalent." It is a universal principle, where power or jurisdiction " is delegated to any...public officer or tribunal, over a subject matter, and the exercise is confided to his or their discretion, the acts so done are binding and valid as to the... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1855 - 702 pages
...In United States v. Arredondo, 6 Pet. 729, the court say : " It is an universal principle, that when power or jurisdiction is delegated to any public officer or tribunal, over a subject-matter, and its exercise is confided to his or their discretion, the acts so done are binding... | |
| United States. Court of Claims - 1857 - 728 pages
...within the legitimate sphere of their duties, their appraisement is final. The general principle is, that where power or jurisdiction is delegated to any public officer or tribunal over • a subject-matter, and its exercise is confided to his or their discretion, the acts so done are binding... | |
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