 | Philippines - Law - 1988 - 484 pages
...suit, not because of any formal conception or obsolete theory, but on the logical and practical ground that there can be no legal right as against the authority that makes the law on which the right depends" (Justice Holmes in Kawananakoa vs. Polyblank, 205 US 353, 51 L. ed. 834). "The public service would... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 636 pages
...suit, not because of any formal conception or obsolete theory, -but on the logical and practical ground that there can be no legal right as against the authority that makes the law on which the right depends, and as this doctrine is not confined to full sovereign powers it extends to those, such as the Territories... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 640 pages
...suit, not because of any formal conception or obsolete theory, but on the logical and practical ground that there can be no legal right as against the authority that makes the law on which the right depends, and as this doctrine is not confined to full sovereign powers it extends to those, such as the Territories... | |
 | Karl Singewald - Administrative responsibility - 1910 - 136 pages
...suit, not because of any formal conception or obsolete theory, but on the logical and practical ground that there can be no legal right as against the authority that makes the law on which the right depends."3 This afforded a basis for the extension of the exemption to the territory of Hawaii: "As... | |
 | Administrative responsibility - 1911 - 596 pages
...suit, not because of any formal conception or obsolete theory, but on the logical and practical ground that there can be no legal right as against the authority that makes the law on which the right depends."3 This afforded a basis for the extension of the exemption to the territory of Hawaii : "As... | |
 | Francis Marion Burdick - Torts - 1913 - 724 pages
...suit, not because of any formal conception or obsolete theory, but on the logical and practical ground that there can be no legal right as against the authority that makes the law on which the right depends. ' Car on peut bien recevoir lay d'autruy, mais il est impossible par nature de se donner loy.' Bodin,... | |
 | James Parker Hall - Constitutional law - 1914 - 528 pages
...suit, not because of any formal conception of obsolete theory, but on the logical and practical ground that there can be no legal right as against the authority that makes the law on which the right depends. * * * As the ground is thus logical and practical, the doctrine is not confined to powers that are... | |
 | Richard Theodore Ely - Contracts - 1914 - 542 pages
...suit, not because of any formal conception or obsolete theory, but on the logical and practical ground that there can be no legal right as against the authority that makes a law on which the right depends. 'Car on peut bien recevoir loy d'autruy, mais il est impossible par... | |
 | Constitutional law - 1915 - 650 pages
...suit, not because of any formal conception or obsolete theory, but on the logical and practical ground that there can be no legal right as against the authority that makes the law on which the right depends." This objection sounds convincing, but a careful examination may reveal faulty premises. There is little... | |
 | Constitutional law - 1915 - 656 pages
...suit, not because of any formal conception or obsolete theory, but on the logical and practical ground that there can be no legal right as against the authority that makes the law on which the right depends." This objection sounds convincing, but a careful examination may reveal faulty premises. There is little... | |
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A sovereign is exempt from suit, not because of any formal conception or obsolete theory, but on the logical and practical ground that there can be no legal right as against the authority that makes the law on which the right depends. 
