 | John Boag - English language - 1848 - 744 pages
...ОГГЕВТГВЕ, of* fir-lure, n. Ofl'er; proposal. ОЪз. OFFICE, bffh, [Kr., L. oßciwn.] n. A particular duty, charge, or trust conferred by public authority, and for a public purpose; an employment undertaken Ъу commission or authority from government or those who administer it. A... | |
 | John Craig (F.G.S.) - 1859 - 1116 pages
...we wen thine enemies,— Kmg Ciarla. OFFICE, of fis, ». (French, from officium, Lat.) X stipulated duty, charge, or trust, conferred by public authority and for a public purpose; a duty, charge, or trust, of a sacred character and of divine appointment; duty or employment of a... | |
 | Illinois. General Assembly. House of Representatives - Illinois - 1867 - 1084 pages
...manifestly "officers'' in the meaning of the constitution. Webster defines the word "office" to signify "a particular duty, charge or trust conferred by public authority and for a public purpose." The supreme court of New York, in 20 John. Reps., 492, defines the legal meaning of the word to be... | |
 | Pacific railroads - 1878 - 800 pages
...say, on page 556 : What is an office 1 Among lexicographers, Webster defines the wnnl to signify " a particular duty, charge, or trust conferred by public authority and for a particular purpose." In a cane in 30 John., Rep. 492, Platt, J., delivering the opinion of the court,... | |
 | John Campbell Allen - 1879 - 606 pages
...will not include the Provincial Secretary, or any public officer, or the clerks in the public offices. An office is a particular duty, charge or trust, conferred by public authority and for a public purpose : it is an occupation or employment, and therefore, necessarily, it is a " calling." Cur. adv. vult.... | |
 | California, California. Constitutional Convention - California - 1880 - 648 pages
...olliee is the right to exercise a public function or employment, or as Webster's Dictionary gives it, " An office is a particular duty, charge, or trust, conferred by public authority for a public purpose." Are we not now engaged in the performance of a duty, of a charge, of a trust?... | |
 | California - California - 1880 - 648 pages
...office is the right to exercise a public function or employment, or as Webster's Dictionary gives it, " An office is a particular duty, charge, or trust, conferred by public authority fora public purpose." Arc we not now engaged in the performance of a duty, of a charge, of a trust?... | |
 | United States. Comptroller of the Treasury - Finance, Public - 1882 - 676 pages
...ACTING JUDGE-ADVOCATE AN OFFICER Î We are now brought to the question whether * » » [the member] in what occurred in this prosecution of Haddock, became...authorized by law to confer it. Upon this very question Chief-Justice Marshal, in the case of Maurice (2 Brock., 101), says : "It is too clear, I think, for... | |
 | United States. Comptroller of the Treasury - Finance, Public - 1882 - 668 pages
...AS ACTING JUDGE-ADVOCATE AN OFFICER 1 We are now brought to the question whether * * * [the member] in what occurred in this prosecution of Haddock, became...compensation for such service. Nothing can be plainer thau that no office of this Government can be created or conferred except by some public authority... | |
 | United States. Comptroller of the Treasury - Finance, Public - 1882 - 682 pages
...AS ACTING JUDGE-ADVOCATE AN OFFICES f We are now brought to the question whether » * * [the member1 in what occurred in this prosecution of Haddock, became...purpose, with a right usually attached to receive 3 fixed compensation for such service. Nothing can be plainer than that no office of this Government... | |
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An office is a particular duty, charge, or trust conferred by public authority, and for a public purpose, with a right usually attached to receive a fixed compensation for such service. Nothing can be plainer than that no office of this Government can... 
