 | Philippines - 1988 - 484 sider
...the Corporation Law provides that every corporation has the power to sue and be sued in any court. "A sovereign is exempt from suit, not because of any...authority that makes the law on which the right depends" (Justice Holmes in Kawananakoa vs. Polyblank, 205 US 353, 51 L. ed. 834). "The public service would... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1907 - 640 sider
...permission, but the answer has been public property since before the days of Hobbes. (Leviathan, c. 26, 2.) A sovereign is exempt from suit, not because of any...authority that makes the law on which the right depends. "Car on pent bien recevoir lay d'autruy, mais il est impossible par nature de se donner lay." Bodin,... | |
 | Karl Singewald - 1910 - 130 sider
...treasury."2 Another view of the exemption, resting upon the eminent authority of Justice Holmes, is this : " A sovereign is exempt from suit, not because of any...the authority that makes the law on which the right depends."3 This afforded a basis for the extension of the exemption to the territory of Hawaii: "As... | |
 | 1911 - 606 sider
...treasury."2 Another view of the exemption, resting upon the eminent authority of Justice Holmes, is this : " A sovereign is exempt from suit, not because of any...the authority that makes the law on which the right depends."3 This afforded a basis for the extension of the exemption to the territory of Hawaii : "As... | |
 | Francis Marion Burdick - 1913 - 724 sider
...permission, but the answer has been public property since before the days of Hobbes. (Leviathan, c. 26, 2.) A sovereign is exempt from suit, not because of any...authority that makes the law on which the right depends. ' Car on peut bien recevoir lay d'autruy, mais il est impossible par nature de se donner loy.' Bodin,... | |
 | Richard Theodore Ely - 1914 - 542 sider
...permission, but the answer has been public property since the days of Hobbes (Leviathan c. 26, 2). A sovereign is exempt from suit, not because of any...no legal right as against the authority that makes a law on which the right depends. 'Car on peut bien recevoir loy d'autruy, mais il est impossible par... | |
 | James Parker Hall - 1914 - 528 sider
...powers in local matters, was held not subject to private suit without its consent, Holmes, J., saying: "A sovereign is exempt from suit, not because of any formal conception of obsolete theory, but on the logical and practical ground that there can be no legal right as against... | |
 | Floyd Barzilia Clark - 1915 - 234 sider
...additional very logical objection is made by Justice Holmes in Kawananakoa v. Polyblank, 205 US 349: "A sovereign is exempt from suit, not because of any...authority that makes the law on which the right depends." This objection sounds convincing, but a careful examination may reveal faulty premises. There is little... | |
 | 1915 - 656 sider
...additional very logical objection is made by Justice Holmes in Kawananakoa v. Polyblank, 205 US 349: "A sovereign is exempt from suit, not because of any...authority that makes the law on which the right depends." This objection sounds convincing, but a careful examination may reveal faulty premises. There is little... | |
 | 1915 - 652 sider
...additional very logical objection is made by Justice Holmes in Kawananakoa v. Polyblank, 205 US 349: "A sovereign is exempt from suit, not because of any...authority that makes the law on which the right depends." This objection sounds convincing, but a careful examination may reveal faulty premises. There is little... | |
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A sovereign is exempt from suit, not because of any formal conception or obsolete theory, but on the logical and practical ground that there can be no legal right as against the authority that makes the law on which the right depends. 
