...discussed at length we may not dwell upon them here. (5) Offices.9 An office was a right to exercise a public or private employment and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging. (6) Dignities.10 Dignities consisted in the right to honors and offices, as those of dukes, marquesses,...

...incorporeal hereditaments, and defines an office to be "a right to ex10 Throop, Public Officers, § 2. ercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging." In a case involving the question of whether or not an "attendant" upon a court of record in the city...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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....

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...