Jarnagin v. Garrett’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “"Sec. 20 (Justices of the Peace—Liabilities) Ministerial Acts —The general immunity of a justice of the peace from liability for judicial acts within his jurisdiction does not extend to ministerial acts, in the performance of which a justice of the peace is responsible for error and misconduct in like manner and to the same extent as all other ministerial officers. Thus, many cases make a distinction between the judicial and ministerial acts of a justice, and hold that justices of the peace are responsible in a civil suit to individuals for all damages arising from every illegal act they may have done in the exercise of their ministerial duties. "Sec. 21— Particular acts as Ministerial or Judicial —Generally speaking, where the law defines and prescribes the duties to be performed by an officer with such precision and certainty as to leave nothing to the exercise of discretion or judgment, the act is deemed to be ministerial in character, but where the act to be done involves the exercise of discretion or judgment, it is regarded as judicial in character * * *."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pruitt v. Turner