Legal Opinion
State ex rel. Attorney-General v. Mayor of Dover
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided September 14, 1898PublishedCited by 11 opinions
On application for mandamus.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
'Van Syckel, J.
The “Town of Dover” was incorporated by an act of the legislature, in 1869, with boundaries which were changed by an act passed in 1871, and which, with such change, it still retains.
By the terms of that charter the members of council were to be elected for two years, and were to hold their offices until their successors were elected and sworn in.
The government of Dover was conducted under this legislation until the year 1896, when, under and in pursuance of an act of the legislature, passed March 22d, 1895, the inhabitants of the “ Town…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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- Baker v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 2003
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