 | United States. Congress. House - 962 pages
...universally admitted, that whenever power or jurisdiction is delegated to any public officer or tribunal, and its exercise is confided to his or their discretion, the acts done in the exercise of that discretion, and within the authority conferred, are binding as to the... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court, George Noble Stewart, Benjamin Faneuil Porter - 1837 - 518 pages
...also declaied it to be an "universal principle, that where power or jurisdiction is delegated to any public officer or tribunal, over a subject matter,...the subject matter; and individual rights will not bo disturbed, collaterally, for any thing done, in the exercise of that discretion, within the authority... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - 1841 - 142 pages
...universally admitted, that, whenever power or jurisdiction is delegated to any public officer or tribunal, and its exercise is confided to his or their discretion, the acts done in the exercise of that discretion, and within the authority conferred, are binding as to the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1851 - 340 pages
...universally admitted, that, whenever power or jurisdiction is delegated to any public/ officer or tribunal, and its exercise is confided to his or their discretion, the acts done in the exercise of that discretion, and within the authority conferred, are binding as to the... | |
 | United States. Attorney-General - 1852 - 836 pages
...universally admitted, that whenever power or jurisdiction is delegated to any public officer or tribunal, and its exercise is confided to his or their discretion, the acts done in the exercise of that discretion, and within the authority conferred, are binding as to the... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - 1854 - 674 pages
...power or jurisdiction is delegated to any public officer or tribunal over a subject-matter, and the exercise is confided to his or their discretion, the acts so done are binding and valid as to the subject-matter ; and individual rights will not be disturbed collaterally for anything done in the... | |
 | 1855 - 804 pages
...power or jurisdiction " is delegated to any public officer or tribunal, over a subject matter, and the exercise is confided to his or their discretion, the...done are binding and valid as to the subject matter." Arredondo't case, 6 Peters, 729. In United States vs. Clarke, 8 Peters, 453, the Court say, " He who... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1855 - 702 pages
...that when power or jurisdiction is delegated to any public officer or tribunal over a subject-matter, and its exercise is confided to his or their discretion, the acts so done are binding and valid as to the subject-matter. The only questions which can arise between an individual claiming a right under the... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - 1857 - 728 pages
...where power or jurisdiction is delegated to any public officer or tribunal over • a subject-matter, and its exercise is confided to his or their discretion, the acts so done are binding and valid as to the subject-matter. The only questions which can arise between an individual claiming a right under the... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - 1858 - 1092 pages
...Aredondo, 6 Peters, 729 : " It is an universal principle, that when power or jurisdiction is given to any public officer or tribunal over a subject matter,...or their discretion, the acts so done are binding, * * whether executive, legislative, judicial or special." This Court has decided the same principle... | |
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It is a universal principle that where power or jurisdiction is delegated to any public officer or tribunal over a subject matter, and its exercise is confided to his or their discretion, the acts so done are binding and valid as to the subject matter... 
