 | 1902 - 988 էջ
...not a law, according as the truth of the fact may be, and not according to the shifting circumstanced es, he shall be liable to be punished summarily, as...neglecting or refusing, without reasonable cause, to о In that case the invalidity of the law • grew out of the faot'that the journals of the • senate... | |
 | 1914 - 1406 էջ
...according to the shifting circumstances of the parties. It would be an Intolerable state of affairs If a document purporting to be an act of the Legislature...settled and determined by the courts and Judges.' Town of South Ottawa v. Perkins, 94 US 260, 24 L. Ed. 154." The opinion In the case of Rushton v. Lelander,... | |
 | 1884 - 1030 էջ
...legislature could thus be a law in one case and for one party, and not a law in another case and for p.nother party; a law to-day, and not a law to-morrow; a law...doctrine of estoppel is totally inadmissible in the case. It would be a very unseemly state of things, after the courts of Illinois have determined that a pretended... | |
 | 1885 - 890 էջ
...Liquidation r. McComb, 2 Otto, 541. g 46. The question whether a certaiu pretended act is a law or not is a judicial question, to be settled and determined by the courts and judges, and there can be no such thing as a person being estopped to deny the invalidity of any such act. Town... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1913 - 690 էջ
...according to the shifting circumstances of the parties. It would be an intolerable state of affairs if a document purporting to be an act of the Legislature...settled and determined by the courts and judges." South Ottawa v. Perkins, 94 US 260; Wilkes County v. Coler, 180 US 506; Rogers v. State, 72 Ark. 565.... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1896 - 1026 էջ
...an act of thelegislature could thus be a law in one case and for one party, and not a law in auother case and for another party; a law to-day, and not...The doctrine of estoppel is totally inadmissible in this case": Ottowa v. Perkins, 94 IT. S, a;,). It must also appear that the statute under which bondshave... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - 1897 - 840 էջ
...Canal Co. v. Baltimore &c. KR Co., 4 Gill & J. 1, G3 (1832). But whether a statute "be a law or riot a law, is a judicial question, to be settled and determined by the courts and judges. . . . When once it became the settled construction of the Constitution of Illinois that no act can... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1901 - 772 էջ
...of the legislature could thus be a law in one case and for one party, and not a law in another case for another party ; a law to-day, and not a law to-morrow...doctrine of estoppel is totally inadmissible in the case. It would be a very unseemly state of things, after the courts of Illinois have deter' mined that a... | |
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That which purports to be a law of a State is a law, or it is not a law, according as the truth of the fact may be, and not according to the shifting circumstances of parties. It would be an intolerable state of things if a document purporting to be an... 
