 | Erastus Thatcher - 1883 - 640 pages
...Pet. 190. 12. In England, the writ of mandamus is defined to be a command issuing in the king's name, from the Court of King's Bench, and directed to any...person, corporation, or inferior court of judicature within the king's dominions, requiring them to do some particular thing therein specified, which appertains... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1884 - 724 pages
...bench or common pleas. (/') A writ of mandamus is, in general, a command issuing in the king's name from the court of king's bench, and directed to any person, corporation, or >) Hale, Hist CL 8«. Co. Litt 11. <*) Clarke prax. CUT. adm. в 13. Ibid. $ 11. 1 Boa Abr. 531. Raym.... | |
 | James Newton Fiero - 1887 - 772 pages
...is defined by Blackstone as " In general a command issuing in the king's name from the Court of the King's Bench and directed to any person, corporation or inferior court of jurisdiction within the king's dominions, requiring them to do some particular thing therein specified,... | |
 | 1888 - 942 pages
...volume of his Commentaries, page 110, defines a mandamus to be "a command issuing in the king's name from the court of king's bench, and directed to any...person, corporation, or inferior court of judicature within the king's dominions, requiring them to do some particular thing therein specified, which appertains... | |
 | Floyd Russell Mechem - 1890 - 904 pages
...of a most extensively remedial nature," and he defines it as " a command issuing in the king's name from the court of king's bench, and directed to any...person, corporation or inferior court of judicature within the king's dominions, requiring them to do some particular thing, therein specified, which appertains... | |
 | John C. Devereux - 1891 - 432 pages
...writ of mandamus ? — 110. A writ of mandamus is, in general, a command issuing in the king's name from the court of king's bench, and directed to any...person, corporation, or inferior court of judicature, within the king's dominions, requiring them to do some particular thing, therein specified, which appertains... | |
 | Samuel Slaughter Merrill - 1892 - 556 pages
...of writ of mandamus. — A writ of mandamus is defined to be a command, issuing in the king's name from the court of king's bench, and directed to any...person, corporation, or inferior court of judicature within the king's dominions, requiring them to do some particular thing, therein specified, which pertains... | |
 | Philemon Bliss - 1894 - 858 pages
...Nature and Object. Blackstone defines a writ of mandamus to be "a command issuing in the king's name from the court of king's bench, and directed to any...person, corporation, or inferior court of judicature within the king's dominions, requiring them to do some particular thing therein specified, which appertains... | |
 | Richard Ross Perry - 1897 - 536 pages
...ERROR.4 MANDAMUS. A writ of mandamus (we command) is a mandate issuing in England in the king's name from the Court of King's Bench, and directed to any...person, corporation, or inferior court of judicature within the king's dominions, requiring to be done some particular ministerial act therein specified,... | |
 | William Blackstone (Sir) - 1897 - 838 pages
...attachment, returnable in the king's bench cr common pleas. Mandamus. A command, issuing in the king's name, from the court of king's bench, and directed to any person, corporation or inferior court, requiring them to do some particular thing therein specified, which appertains to their office and... | |
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Commentaries, page 110, defines a mandamus to be " a command issuing in the king's name from the court of king's bench, and directed to any person, corporation, or inferior court of judicature within the king's dominions, requiring them to do some particular... 
