 | Law - 1875 - 438 pages
...rule, judges of courts of superior or general jurisdiction, acting under color of jurisdiction, are not liable to civil actions for their judicial acts, even...when such acts are in excess of their jurisdiction and are alleged to have been done maliciously or corruptly. But they draw a distinction between excess... | |
 | Law - 1880 - 554 pages
...Fisher, 13 Wall. 335, it is held that judges of courts of superior or general jurisdiction are uotr liable to civil actions for their judicial acts, even...when such acts are in excess of their jurisdiction, and are alleged to have been done maliciously or corruptly ; and a distinction is made between excess... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 1546 pages
...correct statement of the law, and that judges of courts of superior or general jurisdiction are not liable to civil actions for their judicial acts, even...when such acts are in excess of their jurisdiction, and are alleged to have been done maliciously or corruptly. A distinction must be here observed between... | |
 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - Torts - 1876 - 762 pages
...jurisdiction must have before him some cause of action, charge, or complaint, into which he has by law their judicial acts, even when such acts are in excess of their Jurisdiction, and are alleged to have been done maliciously or corruptly. liut it was held that the rule was otherwise... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 648 pages
...discharge the great trusts of their office." " Judges of Courts of superior or general jurisdiction are not liable to civil actions for their judicial acts, even...when such acts are in excess of their jurisdiction, and are alleged to have been done maliciously or corruptly." The Circuit Courts of the United States... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 882 pages
...335, it was held that nidges of courts of record of superior or general jurisdiction are not '•il'le to civil actions for their judicial acts, even when such acts are in Fausler v. Parsons. excess of their jurisdiction and are alleged to have been done maliciously or corruptly.... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 864 pages
...Freeman, 2 Ir. CLR 460. Judges of superior or general jurisdiction are not liable in civil notions for their judicial acts, even when such acts are in excess of their jurisdiction, »nd are alleged to have been done maliciously and corruptly. BratUty v. Fii 13 Wall. 335, 351. But... | |
 | James Kirby - Law - 1878 - 658 pages
...somewhat further, in the terms of the stateBC'-nt : Judges of superior or general jurisdiction are not liable to civil actions for their judicial acts, even when such acts are in excees i of their jurisdiction, und are alleged to have I been done maliciously and corruptly, ßnutley... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 888 pages
...for malpractice and misconduct in his office. The court say in regard to such judges, " They are not liable to civil actions for their judicial acts, even...jurisdiction are done maliciously or corruptly." This obiter " perhaps " we think is not justified l>y the authorities, and no case is cited to support it.... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 750 pages
...somewhat further, in the terms of the statement : Judges of superior or general jurisdiction are not liable to civil actions for their judicial acts, even...when such acts are in excess of their jurisdiction, and are alleged to have been done maliciously and corruptly. (Bradley v. FisJier, 13 Wall., 351.) It... | |
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... judges of courts of superior or general jurisdiction are not liable to civil actions for their judicial acts, even when such acts are in excess of their jurisdiction, and are alleged to have been done maliciously or corruptly. 
