 | United States. Supreme Court - 1904 - 444 էջ
...or for any right in subordinate officers to review his decision, and in effect defeat it. Whenever a statute gives a discretionary power to any person,...the statute constitutes him the sole and exclusive i*«« judge of the existence of those facts. And in the present case, we ' are all of opinion, that... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1827 - 682 էջ
...or for any right in subordinate officers to review his decision, and in effect defeat it. Whenever a statute gives a discretionary power to any person,...own opinion of certain facts, it is a sound rule of con1 827. struct ion , that the statute constitutes him the sole and exclu\_^~ .~»_ sive judge of... | |
 | William Alexander Duer - 1833 - 264 էջ
...require to be concealed. 458. Whenever an Act of Congress gives to the President a discretionary power, to be exercised by him upon his own opinion of certain...exclusive judge of the existence of those facts ; and it is not considered a valid objection, that such power may be abused ; for there is no power which... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 800 էջ
...an appeal from, or review of the president's opinion. And whenever a statute gives a descretionary power to any person to be exercised by him upon his own opinion of certain facts, the general rule of construction is, that he is thereby constituted the sole and exclusive judge of... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1834 - 284 էջ
...them. No provision is made for an appeal from, or review of, the President's opinion. And whenever a statute gives a discretionary power to any person,...exercised by him upon his own opinion of certain facts, the general rule of construction is, that he is thereby constituted the sole and exclusive judge of... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1834 - 284 էջ
...them. No provision is made for an appeal from, or review of, the President's opinion. And whenever a statute gives a discretionary power to any person,...exercised by him upon his own opinion of certain facts, the general rule of construction is, that he is thereby constituted the sole and exclusive judge of... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1836 - 304 էջ
...them. No provision is made for an appeal from, or review of, the President's opin-ion. And whenever a statute gives a discretionary power to any person,...exercised by him upon his own opinion of certain facts, the general rule of con-struction is, that he is thereby constituted the sole and exclusive judge of... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 էջ
...or for any right in subordinate officers to review his decision, and in effect defeat it. Whenever a statute gives a discretionary power to any person,...opinion that such is the true construction of the act of 1795. It is no answer, that such a power may be abused, for there is no power which is not susceptible... | |
 | 1865 - 836 էջ
...be, on many grounds, we think, * Whenever a statute gives a discretionary power to any person, to bo exercised by him upon his own opinion of certain facts,...and exclusive judge of the existence of those facts. * • * It is no answer that such power may be abased, for there is no power which is not susceptible... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1865 - 836 էջ
...military necessity, the result cannot be doubtful. It would be, on many grounds, we think, * Whenever a statute gives a discretionary power to any person,...him upon his own opinion of certain facts, it is a sonnd rule of construction that the statute constitutes him the sole and exclusive judge of the existence... | |
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Whenever a statute gives a discretionary power to any person, to be exercised by him upon his own opinion of certain facts, it is a sound rule of construction, that the statute constitutes him the sole and exclusive judge of the existence of those facts. 
