 Offices, which are a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging, are also incorporeal hereditaments, whether public, as those of magistrates, or private, as of bailiffs, receivers, and the...  Commentaries on the Laws of England - Page 36by William Blackstone - 1800Full view - About this book
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 994 pages
...684) :— " Bell (Com., (7th ed.) ip 121), defines an office thus: 'An office is a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments which belong to it,' and he proceeds : ' In considering offices as responsible for debt, three questions... | |
 | Law - 1920 - 904 pages
...performs the duties from an officer. Bunn v. People, 46 111. 403. An office is a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging. Bowers v. Bowers, 26 Penn. St. 77. An office is a duty, a charge, a trust exercised 'for a public purpose.... | |
 | Thomas Ruffin - Judges - 1920 - 416 pages
...commentators on the law among incorporeal hereditaments, and is defined to be the right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging. (2 El. Com., 36). A public office has been well described to be this : when one man is specially set... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature - Government publications - 1920 - 950 pages
...and one who performs the duties of an office is an officer. 2 Blackstone, 36 : "A right to exercise a public or private employment and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging." BurwilFs Dictionary : " The idea of an officer clearly embraces the idea of tenure, duration, fees... | |
 | Education - 1926 - 862 pages
...court pointed out that a definition in a law dictionary of the term "office" is "a right to exercise a public or private employment and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging, whether public, as those of magistrates, or private, as of bailiffs' receivers or the like." "We think... | |
 | Law - 1921 - 500 pages
...views in reference to public offices. "At common law an office was defined to be a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging, whether public or private," but now we have the rule, that "In America public offices are created for... | |
 | New York (State). Attorney General's Office - Attorneys general's opinions - 1920 - 454 pages
...and one who performs the duties of an office is an officer. 2 Blackstone, 36 : "A right to exercise a public or private employment and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging." Burwill's Dictionary : " The idea of an officer clearly embraces the idea of tenure, duration, fees... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1854 - 1018 pages
...hereditament within the definition in 2 Black. Com. 36. — " Offices which are a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging, are also incorporeal hereditaments," and it falls also within the definition of " tenement " which precedes... | |
 | Wyoming. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 642 pages
...election. What does a successful candidate acquire by election ? An office is a " right to exercise a public (or private) employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging." (2 Blackstone, 36.) The term embraces the ideas of tenure, devotion, emolument, and duties. (US v.... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1979 - 569 pages
...correfpond with the Roman °. V. OFFICES, which are a right to exercife a public or private employment, and the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging, are alfo...bailiffs, receivers, and the like. For a man may have an eftate in them, either to him and his Heirs, or for life, or for a term of years, or during pleafure... | |
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