 If the statute expressly declares any particular act to be essential to the validity of the election, or that its omission shall render the election void, all courts whose duty it is to enforce such statute, must so hold, whether the particular act in...  A Treatise on the American Law of Elections - Page 93by George Washington McCrary - 1875 - 487 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Law - 1892 - 582 pages
...his excellent work on the Law of Elections (section 190), states the rule as follows: 'If the statnte expressly declares any particular act to be essential...omission shall render the election void, all courts whoso dnty it is to enforce such statnte must so hold, whether the particular act in question goes... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1878 - 722 pages
...sealed the returns. Mr. McCrary, in American Law of Elections, pages 93 and У4, thus states the law : "The language of the statute to be construed must...to be essential to the validity of the election, or tbat its omission shall render, the election void, all courts whose duty it is to enforce such statute... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 1182 pages
...of the statute tobe construed must beconsulted and followed. If the statute expressly declares nny particular act to be essential to the validity of...omission shall render the election void, all courts whoso duty it is to enforce such statute nitiMt so hold, whether the particular act in question goes... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 1166 pages
...effect of invalidating the returns. In Carr v. Hyattsville, 115 Md. 549, 81 АЫ. 9, this court said : "If the statute expressly declares any particular...omission shall render the election void, all courts • • * must so hold. » * * But if, as In most cases, that statute simply provides that certain... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 890 pages
...poll, the contrary is the rule concerning such provisions as are mandatory. The rule is stated, that if the statute expressly declares any particular act...omission shall render the election void, all courts must ю hold, whether the particular act goes to the merits or affects the result of the election or... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 932 pages
...necessary to this end, and without which it cannot be attained, must be performed. Says Judge McCRARY : "If the statute expressly declares any particular...the validity of the election, or that its omission shrill render the election void, all courts whose duty it is to enforce such statute must so hold,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 1390 pages
...and School Districts, Dec. Dig. § 97.*] 3. ELECTIONS (| 227*) — STATUTES — COMPLIANCE. Where a statute expressly declares any particular act to be essential to the validity of an election, the act must be performed in the manner provided, or the election is void ; but where... | |
 | Edward Warren Hines, William Pope Duvall Bush, John Cleland Wells, Frank L. Wells, Findlay Ferguson Bush, Horace C. Brannin, William Cromwell, W. J. Chinn, Walter G. Chapman, R. G. Higdon, Thomas Robert McBeath - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 1094 pages
...language of the statute tq Ъе construed must be consulted and followed. If the statute expressly declare any particular act to be essential to the validity..."that its omission shall render the election void, »11 courts, whose duty it is to enforce such statute, must so hold, whether the particular act in... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 690 pages
...will not vitiate an election. • SAME. — Directory and Mandatory Provisions.— What are. — If a statute expressly declares any particular act to be essential to the validity of i>n election, or that its omission shall render the election void, the courts must so hold whether... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 1052 pages
...last edition of his excellent work on the Law of Elections, section 190, states the rule as follows; " If the statute expressly declares any particular act to be essential to the validity of the election, orthat its omission shall render the election void, all courts whose duty it is to enforce such statute,... | |
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