State ex rel. Geiger v. Long
Montana Supreme Court
Original application for mandamus by the state, on the. relation of John H. Geiger, against Philip R. Long, as clerk of the district court of Lincoln county.
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Original application for mandamus by the state, on the. relation of John H. Geiger, against Philip R. Long, as clerk of the district court of Lincoln county. An ancient and universally approved maxim is that contemporaneous interpretation, or construction, or exposition of constitutions or statutes, whether by the court or by the framers of the Constitution, or by the law-making power, or by the officers charged with the execution of that instrument, of any enactments, which are based thereon, or by the silent, but none the less effective, tacit consent and approval of the people, is the;…
1Opinion
*415On Rehearing.
(Submitted June 12, 1911. Decided July 1, 1911.)
Lincol/n, County Act — County Seat — Permanent Location — Special Laws — Constitution—Statutory Construction — Intent of Legislature — Part of Statute.
Lincoln County — Permanent Location of County Seat — Special Law — Tin-constitutionality.
1. Held, under section 26, Article Y, of tbe Constitution, that the legislature may not, in a special Act, creating a county, refer the location of its permanent county seat to a vote of the people of the county, but can do so only by a general law of uniform operation throughout the state; and…
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- Groves v. County Court of Grant CountyWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1896
- State ex rel. Hay v. HindsonMontana Supreme Court · 1910
- Doan v. Board of CommissionersIdaho Supreme Court · 1891
- Attorney General v. Board of County CanvassersMichigan Supreme Court · 1887
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