 | 1896 - 848 pages
...more (Mr Justice Miller), repeated this great principle :—" No man in this country is so high [30] that he is above the law. No officer of the law may...officers of the Government, from the highest to the [30] lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it. It is the only supreme power in our... | |
 | Thomas Francis Bayard - Free enterprise - 1896 - 52 pages
...most distinguished members, now no more (Mr. Justice Miller), repeated this great principle : — " No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. 26 No officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the Government,... | |
 | United States. Patent Office - Copyright - 1897 - 848 pages
...which the law gives him for the protection and enforcement of that right ; no man in this country is HO high that he is above the law ; no officer of the...are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it. If the United States may appropriate to public use the. invention of a patentee, without his consent,... | |
 | United States - 1897 - 906 pages
...him for the protection and enforcement of that right ; thatrm> man in this country is so high that ho is above the law ; no officer of the law may set that...at defiance with impunity; all the officers of the OJoveruuient, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it. If... | |
 | Civil service - 1898 - 1200 pages
...the record the opinion of Justice Miller in the case of Lee v. The United States. It is as follows: " No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. >"o officer of the law may act that law at defiance with impunity. All the officials of the Government,... | |
 | University of Colorado - 1902 - 126 pages
...England there are no official courts for the trial of official eases. "No man," said Justice Miller, "in this country is so high that he is above the law....the law may set that law at defiance with impunity." The same law applies to all persons and is administered for and against all persons in the courts of... | |
 | Bruce Wyman - Administrative law - 1903 - 668 pages
...executive branch of the government, however clear it may be that the executive possessed no such power. No man in this country is so high that he is above...law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All officers of the government from the highest to the lowest are creatures of the law and are bound to... | |
 | Bruce Wyman - Administrative law - 1903 - 660 pages
...executive branch of the government, however clear it may be that the executive possessed no such power. Xo man in this country is so high that he is above the...law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All officers of the government from the highest to the lowest are creatures of the law and are bound to... | |
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No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it. 
