| Illinois. Supreme Court - 1905 - 712 halaman
...predicated upon an unconstitutional law. In Norton v. Shelby County, 118 US 425, on page 442, it was said: "An unconstitutional act is not a law. It confers...as inoperative as though it had never been passed." We find in this record no reasons for disturbing the judgments of the lower courts. The judgment of... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1965 - 942 halaman
...followed that rule in Nortonv. Shelby County, 118 US 425 (1886)," holding that unconstitutional action "confers no rights; it imposes no duties; it affords...as inoperative as though it had never been passed." At 442. The judge rather than being the creator of the law was but its discoverer. Gray, Nature and... | |
| 1925 - 1636 halaman
...been often said of an unconstitutional legislative act that it "is not a law ; it confers no right ; it imposes no duties ; it affords no protection ;...as inoperative as though it had never been passed." Norton v. Shelby County, 118 US 442, 30 L. ed. 186, 6 Sup. Ct. Rep. 1125; Bonnett v. Vallier, 136 Wis.... | |
| 1923 - 924 halaman
...officer, then the board's purported order of removal, being wholly without force, determines no right. It is in legal contemplation as inoperative as though it had never been promulgated. It would not stand between petitioner and his right to receive the salary that goes with... | |
| United States. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals - 1968 - 370 halaman
...law since, as stated by the United States Supreme Court in Norton v. Shelby, 118 US 425, 442: * * * An unconstitutional act is not a law; it confers no...in legal contemplation as inoperative as though it has never been passed." United States v. Mason — 51-107 Court accepts as established law that, as... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1977 - 762 halaman
...power is not, however, to legitimize it. As a Supreme Court Justice of the last century commented: "An unconstitutional act is not a law, it confers...as inoperative as though it had never been passed." *• The same principle must apply to action by the executive. In the pithy phrase of Professor Berger,... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1977 - 544 halaman
...power is not, -however, to legitimize it. As a Supreme Court Justice of the last century commented: "An unconstitutional act is not a law, it confers...as inoperative as though it had never been passed." 34 The same principle must apply to action by the executive. In the pithy phrase of Professor Berger,... | |
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