 An unconstitutional act is not a law; it confers no rights ; it imposes no duties ; it affords no protection ; it creates no office ; it is, in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed.  Reports of Civil and Criminal Cases Decided by the Court of Appeals of ... - 第 608 頁Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, William Littell, Alexander Keith Marshall 著 - 1913完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - 1917 - 840 頁
...position, such adjudication is absolutely without force. It determines no right; it affords no protection. It is in legal contemplation as inoperative as though it had never been promulgated. It is as much beyond the powers or functions of the Civil Service Commission to adjudicate... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1911 - 662 頁
...Defendants in Error. Messrs. Smith, Taft & Arter and Messrs. Griswold & White, for defendants in error. An unconstitutional act is not a law; it confers no...; it imposes no duties ; it affords no protection; creates no office; it is in legal contemplation, inoperative as though it has not been passed. Norton... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1911 - 668 頁
...Wis., 482; Tennant's Case, 3 Neb., 409; People v. Hatch, 33 11l., 9; Cooley's Const. Lim. (7 ed.), 186. An unconstitutional act is not a law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; it affords no proArgument for Respondent. tection; it creates no office; it is, in legal contemplation, as inoperative... | |
 | American Bar Association - 1912 - 1266 頁
...Xorton vs. Shelby County (118 US 425) : " An unconstitutional act is not law, it confers no right, it imposes no duties, it affords no protection, it...as inoperative as though it had never been passed." When invoked in a case, courts simply disregard it as so much waste paper and enforce the constitution... | |
 | 1894 - 2074 頁
...supreme court of Kansas. The act being unconstitutional, what is the standing of the instruments sued on? "An unconstitutional act is not a law. It confers...as inoperative as though it had never been passed." Norton v. Shelby Co., 118 US 441, 6 Sup. Ct. 1121. The road commissioners were authorized, by section... | |
 | 1899 - 2058 頁
...broad form, amounts to nothing else. It Is difficult to meet it by any argument beyond this statement. An unconstitutional act is not a law; it confers no...in legal contemplation, as Inoperative as though It Lad never been passed." In the case at bar the constitutionality of the act under which the defendant... | |
 | 1902 - 1172 頁
...or all bad. Mr. Justice Field, In Norton v. Shelby Co., 118 US 425, 15 Sup. Ot. 1121, 30 L. Ed. 178, says: "An unconstitutional act is not a law; it confers...as inoperative as though it had never been passed." I have no desire to dispute the familiar and well-recognized rule of law, when part of a statute is... | |
 | 1918 - 1214 頁
...void, that it confers no rights, imposes no duties, affords no protection, and creates no office, and is in legal contemplation as inoperative as though it had never been passed. An examination of the cases supporting the rule that the corporate existence of a municipality or corporation... | |
 | 1908 - 1160 頁
...of commissioner never became a law, and that, therefore, the office never came into existence; that "an unconstitutional act is not a law — it confers...as inoperative as though it had never been passed." Notwithstanding the great weight which the opinion of so distinguished a jurist carries with it, notwithstanding... | |
 | 1894 - 1156 頁
...broad form, amounts to nothing else. It Is difficult to meet it by any argument beyond this statement. An unconstitutional act is not a law; It confers no...inoperative as though It " had never been passed." The result was that the bonds issued by this unconstitutional board, before the unconstitutlonality... | |
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