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administrative regulation

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 297 U.S. 129 - Manhattan General Equipment Co. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · 1936Most cited · 1,243 citing opinions

The power of an administrative officer or board to administer a federal statute and to prescribe rules and regulations to that end is not the power to make law, for no such power can be delegated by Congress, but the power to adopt regulations to carry into effect the will of Congress as expressed by the statute. A regulation which does not do this, but operates to create a rule out of harmony with the statute, is a mere nullity.

How often courts cite the cases defining “administrative regulation”

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Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “administrative regulation” — 1,396 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.

All 2 definitions, chronological · 1917–1936

  1. ORIGINAL

    An oath administered by a state magistrate, in pursuance of a valid regulation of one of the departments of the Federal government, though without express authority from Congress, subjects the affiant to the penalties of the Federal statute against false swearing.

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