 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1804 - 514 pagina’s
...duty, an injured individual has a right to refort to the laws of his country for a remedy. id. i 66 ed, but by the nature of the thing to be done. Marbury v. Mad'ifon, _ i70 22. It is thceflential eriterion of appellate jurifdiftion that it revises and correfts... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1812 - 486 pagina’s
...such a case as would, were any other individual the party complained of, authorize the process? It is not by the office of the person to whom the writ is directed, but the nature of the thing to be done, that the propriety or impropriety of issuing a mandamus is to be... | |
 | Nathan Dane - 1824 - 764 pagina’s
...compel a secre- Madison."' tary of state to deliver a commission to which the party is entitled: 2. That the propriety or impropriety of issuing a mandamus,...directed, but by the nature of the thing to be done : 3. That a mandamus may be directed to an inferior court. Connected with these points in this cause,... | |
 | Nathan Dane - 1824 - 768 pagina’s
...compel a secre- Madison." tary of state to deliver a commission to which the party is entitled : 2. That the propriety or impropriety of issuing a mandamus,...writ is directed, but by the nature of the thing to he done : 3. That a mandamus may be directed to an inferior court. Connected with these points in this... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 pagina’s
...such a case as would, were any other individual the party complained of, authorize the process ? Ut is not by the office of the person to whom the writ is directed, but the nature of the thing to be done, that the propriety or impropriety of issuing a mandamus is to be... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1913 - 710 pagina’s
...be, a ministerial officer. Chief Justice Marshall said in Marbury v. Madison, i Cranch, 137: "It is not by the office of the person to whom the writ is directed, but the nature of the thing to be done, that the propriety or impropriety of issuing a mandamus is to be... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Alexander James Dallas, William Cranch, United States. Supreme Court, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard - 1870 - 708 pagina’s
...such a case as would, were any other individual the party complained of, authorize the process ? It is not by the office of the person to whom the writ is directed, but the nature of the thing to be done, that the propriety or impropriety of issuing a mandamus is to be... | |
 | Charles Sidney Whitman - 1871 - 736 pagina’s
...proper remedy. (Moses on Mandamus, 63.) It was held, in the case of Marbury v. Madison, that ''It is not by the office of the person to whom the writ is directed, but the nature of the thing to be done, that the propriety or impropriety of issuing a mandamus is to be... | |
 | Charles Sidney Whitman - 1871 - 734 pagina’s
...proper remedy. (Moses on Mandamus, 63.) It was held, in the case of Marbury v. Madison, that " It is not by the office of the person to whom the writ is directed, but the nature of the thing to be done, that the propriety or impropriety of issuing a mandamus is to be... | |
 | 1875 - 722 pagina’s
...endorsed and reiterated the proposition so emphatically announced by Chief Justice Marshall, viz : " it is not by the office of the person to whom the writ is directed, but the nature of the thing to be done, that the propriety or impropriety of issuing a mandamus is to be... | |
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It is not by the office of the person to whom the writ is directed, but the nature of the thing to be done, that the propriety or impropriety of issuing a mandamus is to be determined. 
