...Supreme Court of the United States, .as appears from the case of Norton v. Shelby County, 118 US, 442, 6 Sup. Ct., 1125 (30 L. Ed. 178), where Mr. Justice...passed.' "If this be true, how can any officer, who is responsible for his official acts and who has taken the required oath of office that he 'will support,...

...question is Norton v. Shelby County, 118 US, 425, 30 L. Ed., 178. In that case the Supreme Court said: "An unconstitutional act is not a law. It confers no rights; it imposes no duties; it creates no office; it is, in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed;"...

...position, such adjudication is absolutely without force. It determines no right; it affords no protection. It is in legal contemplation as inoperative as though it had never been promulgated. It is as much beyond the powers or functions of the Civil Service Commission to adjudicate...

...Defendants in Error. Messrs. Smith, Taft & Arter and Messrs. Griswold & White, for defendants in error. An unconstitutional act is not a law; it confers no...; it imposes no duties ; it affords no protection; creates no office; it is in legal contemplation, inoperative as though it has not been passed. Norton...

...Wis., 482; Tennant's Case, 3 Neb., 409; People v. Hatch, 33 11l., 9; Cooley's Const. Lim. (7 ed.), 186. An unconstitutional act is not a law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; it affords no proArgument for Respondent. tection; it creates no office; it is, in legal contemplation, as inoperative...

...Supreme Court of the United States, as appears from the case of Norton v. Shelby County, 118 US 442, 6 Sup. Ct. 1125 (30 L. Ed. 178), where Mr. Justice Field,...passed." If this be true, how can any officer, who is responsible for his official acts and who has taken the required oath of office that he "will support,...

...Xorton vs. Shelby County (118 US 425) : " An unconstitutional act is not law, it confers no right, it imposes no duties, it affords no protection, it...as inoperative as though it had never been passed." When invoked in a case, courts simply disregard it as so much waste paper and enforce the constitution...

...supreme court of Kansas. The act being unconstitutional, what is the standing of the instruments sued on? "An unconstitutional act is not a law. It confers...as inoperative as though it had never been passed." Norton v. Shelby Co., 118 US 441, 6 Sup. Ct. 1121. The road commissioners were authorized, by section...

...broad form, amounts to nothing else. It Is difficult to meet it by any argument beyond this statement. An unconstitutional act is not a law; it confers no...in legal contemplation, as Inoperative as though It Lad never been passed." In the case at bar the constitutionality of the act under which the defendant...

...and perform the duties of an office which does not exist dejure can have no validity whatever in law. An unconstitutional act is not a law; it confers no...as inoperative as though it had never been passed. The action of a minority of the justices of the peace of the County Court of Shelby County, Tennessee,...