 | 1921 - 496 pages
...of the ordinary tribunals. With us, every official, from the prime minister down to a constable or collector of taxes, is under the same responsibility...without legal justification as any other citizen." Officals are liable to punishment or to the payment of damages, even for acts clone in their official... | |
 | Albert Venn Dicey - 1885 - 466 pages
...classes, to one law administered by the ordinary Courts, has been pushed to its utmost limit. With us every official, from the Prime Minister down to a...abound with cases in which officials have been brought l»efore the Courts and made in their personal capacity liable to punishment or to the payment of damages... | |
 | Albert Venn Dicey - 1885 - 430 pages
...classes, to one law administered by the ordinary Courts, has been pushed to its utmost limit. With us every official, from the Prime Minister down to a...collector of taxes, is under the same responsibility for everv act done without legal justification as any other citizen. The Reports abound with cases in which... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association - 1906 - 200 pages
...the mother country, every official, from the President of the United States down to a tax collector is under the same responsibility for every act done without legal justification as any other citizen ; and that the legality of any such act when assailed may be tested in the ordinary tribunals under... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1910 - 458 pages
...' With us,' says Professor Dicey,4 ' every official from the Prime Minister down to a constable or collector of taxes is under the same responsibility...without legal justification as any other citizen.' At the Connaught Winter Assizes in 1886, certain persons were charged with obstructing the sheriff... | |
 | Roscoe Pound - 1913 - 662 pages
...classes to one law administered by the ordinary Courts has been pushed to its utmost limit. With us every official, from the Prime Minister down to a...acts done in their official character but in excess ol their lawful authority. A colonial governor, a secretary of state, a military officer, and all subordinates,... | |
 | Reinhold Klotz - 1915 - 726 pages
...pushed to its utmost limit. With us every official, from the Prime Minister down to a constable or collector of taxes, is under the same responsibility...without legal justification as any other citizen." The idea that a special class of persons, for example Crown debtors, could be exempt from the protection... | |
 | 1915 - 680 pages
...the mother country, every official, from the President of the United States down to a tax collector, is under the same responsibility for every act done without legal justification as any other citizen ; and that the legality of any such act when assailed may be tested in the ordinary tribunals under... | |
 | William Dameron Guthrie - 1916 - 296 pages
...classes, to one law administered by the ordinary courts, has been pushed to its utmost limit. With us every official, from the prime minister down to a...courts, and made, in their personal capacity, liable 1 1o1 United States Reports, p. 348. ' t 104 ELEVENTH AMENDMENT to punishment, or to the payment of... | |
 | Hannis Taylor - 1917 - 1038 pages
...pushed to its utmost limit. With us every official, from the Prime Minister down to a constable or collector of taxes, is under the same responsibility...without legal justification as any other citizen." The idea that a special class of persons, for example Crown debtors, could be exempt from the protection... | |
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With us every official, from the Prime Minister down to a constable or a collector of taxes, is under the same responsibility for every act done without legal justification as any other citizen. 
