Colore Officii
Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
Color of office.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
By color of office.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
By color of office. “COLORED MAN.” There is no legal, technical signification in this phrase which the courts are bound judicially to know. 31 Tex. 74.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
Lat. [L. Fr. per colour de son office."^ By color of office; under pretence of official authority.* This term is always taken in a bad sense {in malam partem^ and differs from the words virtute officii, or ratione officii, which are always taken in a good sense, (in bonam partem;) and where the office is the just cause of the thing, and the thing is pursuant to the office. But colore officii implies that the thing is under pretence of office, but not duly, and the office is no more than a cloak to deceit, and the thing is grounded upon vice, and the office is as a shadow thereto. Plowd. 64, arg. See Id. 68. Term^ de la ley.