 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
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 1356 pages
...such writ. In City of San Antonio v. Routledge, 46 Tex. Civ. App. 196, 102 SW 756, it is held that mandamus will lie to compel the performance of an act which the law enjoins as a duty resulting from an office, trust, or situation. With equal force it seems that... | |
 | Colorado. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 688 pages
...writ of mandamus may be issued * * * to any inferior tribunal, corporation, board, officer, or person, to compel the performance of an act which the law...duty resulting from an office, trust or station." Also to the following quotation from High, Extr. Bem. § 80 (and to many other authorities of similar... | |
 | 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 - 1889 - 648 pages
...grant the relief prayed for, further than to say that it is the remedy provided by law to enforce the performance of an act which the law specially enjoins as a duty resulting from au office, trust, or station. (Hill's Code, § 593; Moses on Mandamus, 19; High on Extraordinary Legal... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1890 - 986 pages
...except justice's, probate and mayor's court, to any inferior tribunal, corporation, Ixjard or person, to compel the performance of an act which the law...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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1891 - 778 pages
...which a writ of mandamus may issue, as " to any inferior court, corporation, board, officer or person to compel the performance of an act which the law...duty resulting from an office, trust or station." By the same code, in mandamus, as in civil actions, issues of fact may be tried by a jury ; the verdict... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1892 - 778 pages
...which a writ of mandamus may issue, as " to any inferior court, corporation, board, officer or person to compel the performance of an act which the law...duty resulting from an office, trust or station." By the same code, in mandamus, as in civil actions, issues of fact may be tried by a jury ; the verdict... | |
 | John Lewis - Corporation law - 1892 - 846 pages
...which a writ of mandamus may issue as " to any inferior court, corporation, board, officer or person to compel the performance of an act which the law...duty resulting from an office, trust or station." By the same code, in mandamus, as in civil actions, issues of fact may be tried by a jury ; the verdict... | |
 | Oregon - Law - 1892 - 1154 pages
...otherwise. § 593. [583. J It may be issued to any inferior court, corporation, board, officer, or person, to compel the performance of an act which the law...duty resulting from an office, trust, or station. But though the writ may require such court, corporation, board, officer, or person to exercise its... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - Railroad law - 1892 - 780 pages
...cases in a writo mandamus may issue as " to any inferior court, corporation, board, officer or person to compel the performance of an act which the law...duty resulting from an office, trust or station." By the same Code, prelhlio"*. in mandamus, as in civil actions, issues of fact may be tried by a jury... | |
 | Samuel Slaughter Merrill - Mandamus - 1892 - 556 pages
...ZChumasero v. Potts, 2 Mont 242. Conn. 180. is issued to an inferior tribunal, corporation, board or person, to compel the performance of an act which the law...enjoins as a duty resulting from an office, trust or station.i Notwithstanding these decisions, it is not clear that the writ is confined to public officers... | |
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