· 7/1/1856

People ex rel. McDougal v. Johnston

Citations

  • 6 Cal. 673

Syllabus

<p>Where an Act by its own terms was not to go into effect till a certain day named, and one of its sections provides for an election on a day prior to the time in which the law was to go into effect, the election so held was a nullity, there being no law then in existence authorizing it.</p>

Judges: Heydenfeldt

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