 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,: In Four Books - Page 36by William Blackstone - 1794Full view - About this book
 | Floyd Russell Mechem - Administrative law - 1890 - 904 pages
...The individual so invested is a public officer.* i An office, saysBiACKSTONE, is "a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging." 3 Com. 36. "An office is a special trust or charge created by competent authority. If not merely honorary,... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - Utah - 1890 - 876 pages
...without due process of law,' ne cites Blackstone's Comm., 36, ' Offices which are a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereto belonging, are also incorporeal hereditaments,' etc. So the chief justice in 2 Ala., N. 8.,... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1893 - 558 pages
...in both cases, seems to correspond with the Roman. omens. V. 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,... | |
 | James L. Wolcott - 1896 - 82 pages
...performance of certain duties, public or private." Burrill, Law Diet., Office. " A right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereto belonging." 2 Bl. Com. 36. " An employment on behalf of the government in any station or public... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 1014 pages
...man's affairs against his will and without his leave": Carth. 478. "An office Is a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto 'belonging": 2 Blackstone's Commentaries, 36. And to the same effect nre 3 Kent's Commentaries, 454, and 7 Bacon's... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1899 - 570 pages
...England, in both cases, seems to correspond with Roman. Offices. V. 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,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 932 pages
...by election arises from the fact and at the time of his election. An office is "a right to exercise a public (or private) employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging." 2 Bl. Com. 36; United States v. Hartwell, 6 Wall. 393, 18 L. cd. 832. The salary "is an incident to... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 1044 pages
...by commentators on 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 Bl. Comm. 36. * * * For, if one usurp an office which belongs to another, the owner may have an action... | |
 | George Washington Kirchwey - Real property - 1900 - 578 pages
...England, in both cases, seems to correspond with the Roman. V. 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,... | |
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