King Can Do No Wrong

This maxim means that the king is not resiwnsible legally for aught he may please to do, or for any omission. Aust..Tur. sect. VI. It does not mean that everything done by the government is just and lawful, but that whatever is exceptionable in the conduct of public affairs is not to be imputed to the king; 2 Steph. Com., 11th. ed. 486. The king could not be sued in his own court; it was therefore held that he must act through a servant; otherwise, in case of a wron^ul act, the subject would have no remedy. But the theory that the king can do no wrong, 'and therefore cannot authorize a wrong, and that, if wrong is done, it is the act of his servant (see 2 B. & S. 267), is a constitutional law of the United States, as applicable either to the government or any of its officers, or of the several states or any of their oflicers; Langford v. U. S., 101 U. S. 343, 25 L. Ed. 1010. Our government is not liable for the wrongful and unauthorized acts of its officers, however high their place, and though done under a mistaken zeal for the public good; Gibbons v. U. S., 8 Wall. (U. S.) 269, 19 L. Ed. 453. See Poindexter v. Gieenhow, 114 U. S. 290, 5 Sup. Ct. 903, 962, 29 L. Ed. 185. K I N G 0 F A R M S. See Herald.