 | Bruce Wyman - 1903 - 668 pages
...for a given period, either fixed by law or through the pleasure of the creating power of government, an individual is invested with some portion of the...be exercised by him for the benefit of the public. The warrant to exercise powers is conferred, not by a contract, but by the law. It finds its source... | |
 | Bruce Wyman - 1903 - 660 pages
...Me. 481; County Com'rs (162) ยง 44. Officer. A public office, then, is the right, authority and duty conferred by law by which for a given period, either fixed by law or through the pleasure of the creating power of government, an individual is invested with some portion... | |
 | 1904 - 1004 pages
...Mich. 503, 505 (citing Underwood v. McDuffee, 15 Mich. 361, 366, 93 Am. Dec. 194). "A public office IB the right, authority, and duty created and conferred...sovereign functions of the government, to be exercised by and for the benefit of the public. The individual so invested is a public officer." Attorney General... | |
 | Ohio. Circuit Court - 1904 - 694 pages
...council. Meachem on Public Officers, Section 1, gives the following definition : "A public office is the right, authority and duty created and conferred...by which for a given period, either fixed by law or ending at the pleasure of the creating power, an individual is invested with some part of the sovereign... | |
 | Ohio. Courts - 1904 - 656 pages
...of Mechem, in his work on "Public Offices and Officers," as follows : "Section 2. A public office is the right, authority and duty created and conferred by law, by which, for a given period, either Burch v. Harte, Clerk. [Vol. I, NS fixed by law or enduring at the pleasure of the creating power,... | |
 | Michigan. Attorney General's Office, Michigan. Department of Attorney General - 1905 - 180 pages
...emoluments belonging to it." (Bouvier Law Dictionary; Black's Law Dictionary.) "A public office is the right, authority and duty created and conferred...which, for a given period, either fixed by law or ending at the pleasure of the creating power, an individual is invested with some portion of the sovereign... | |
 | Colorado. Attorney-General's Office - 1906 - 236 pages
...provision? Mechem on Public Officers, section 1, gives the following definition: "A public office is the right, authority and duty created and conferred...sovereign functions of the government, to be exercised for the benefit of the public. The individual so invested is a public officer." Another definition... | |
 | Ohio. Superior Court (Cincinnati), Lewis Montgomery Hosea - 1907 - 568 pages
...quite within the definition of Mechem, Pub. Off. & Off., Section 1, as follows: "A public office is the right, authority and duty created and conferred...be exercised by him for the benefit of the public. The individual so invested in a public officer." Indeed, the referee seems to fall also within the... | |
 | Michigan. Banking Division - 1909 - 612 pages
...right, authority and duty, created and conferred by law, hy which for a given period, either fixed hy law or enduring at the pleasure of the creating power,...portion of the sovereign functions of the government, to he exercised hy him for the henefit of the puhlic." (Mechem on Puhlic Officers, Sec. t.) And he points... | |
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A public office is the right, authority and duty, created and conferred by law, by which for a given period, either fixed by law or enduring at the pleasure of the creating power, an individual is invested with some portion of the sovereign functions... 
