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Quo warranto

noun
1.
A hearing to determine by what authority someone has an office or franchise or liberty.





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"Quo warranto" Quotes from Famous Books



... with the executive power, he stigmatized his enemy Jefferson as a violator of the laws which as President he was sworn to support. Again, he evaded the perilous responsibility of passing upon the validity of the recent Repeal Act in quo warranto proceedings, such as were then being broached. * For if the Supreme Court could not issue the writ of mandamus in suits begun in it by individuals, neither could it issue the writ of quo warranto in such suits. Yet again Marshall ...
— John Marshall and the Constitution - A Chronicle of the Supreme Court, Volume 16 In The - Chronicles Of America Series • Edward S. Corwin


Words linked to "Quo warranto" :   hearing, law, jurisprudence


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