Multnomah County v. Knott’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““The statute provides that any person who shall receive ferriage without such license shall pay a fine of ten dollars for each offense, to be collected for the use of the county, by suit before any justice of the peace having jurisdiction. The statute has created the penalty and provided the mode in which it shall be collected, and we think in this case, as this offense is wholly created by the statute and the manner of its collection specially directed, that it excludes any other mode, and that the jurisdiction to collect this fine resides exclusively in a justice’s court in the first instance, for when the statute says, ‘to be collected by a suit before a justice of the peace,’ it necessarily excludes any other mode of collection.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Amsden