 The writ of mandamus may be denominated the writ of mandate.— 1873-345. 1085. It may be issued by any court, except a justice's or police court, to any inferior tribunal, corporation, board, or person, to compel the performance of an act which the law...  The Oklahoma Law Journal - Page 5411907Full view - About this book
 | Nevada - Law - 1885 - 1332 pages
...this mayiBsue. gfute, except a justice's, to any inferior tribunal, corporation, board, or person, to compel the performance of an act which the law...a duty resulting from an office, trust, or station ; or to compel the admission of a party to the use and enjoyment of a right or office to which he is... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 944 pages
...issued in the name of the State, to an inferior tribunal, a corporation, board or person, commanding the performance of an act, which the law specially enjoins...a duty, resulting from an office, trust or station (R S., § 6741). The writ must not be issued in a case where there is a plain and adequate remedy in... | |
 | Law - 1901 - 1172 pages
...are clean, healthy, and well behaved, but appellee refuses to allow them to attend the nearer school. Mandamus will lie to compel the performance of an act which the law specially enjoins, or a duty resulting from an office, trust, or station. Section 1168, Rev. St. 1881 fsection 1168, Homer's... | |
 | Law - 1916 - 1116 pages
...such writ of mandamus unless it clearly appear that . the performance of the act sought by him is one "which the law specially enjoins as a duty resulting from an office, trust or station." [2] Section 207 of the charter of the city of Columbus, duly adopted in pursuance of authority conferred... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 1070 pages
...its functions, it cannot control judicial discretion." The act which is required of the respondent is "an act which the law specially enjoins as a duty resulting from an office." We are wholly unable to see why it is not within the provisions of the law above cited and... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 898 pages
...not the appropriate mode of bringing before the court the question of title to the office. peñón, to compel the performance of an act which the law specially enjoins; or a duty resulting from an office, t rast, or station." Among the official duties of a clerk is that... | |
 | Ohio, William Henry Whittaker - Civil procedure - 1887 - 688 pages
...in the name of the state, to an inferior tribunal, a corporation, board, or person, commanding the performance of an act which the law specially enjoins...duty resulting from an office, trust, or station. [51 v. 57, §569; S.&C. 1124.] Attorney's fees. Mandamus to compel payment of attorney's fees, see... | |
 | Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 654 pages
...not find that the payment of tuis money by the appellant to the treasurer of Morrow County is " un act which the law specially enjoins as a duty resulting from an office, trust, or station." Our attention has not been called to any statute which creates or imposes the duty, and we know of... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 892 pages
...tribunal, corporation, board, or person to do, or not to do, an act, the performance or omission of which the law specially enjoins as a duty resulting from an office, trust, or station." Section 3763 then further provides that "where a discretion is left to an inferior tribunal, the writ... | |
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