Ministerial act
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Case Law, Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)
Definitions from Case Law
From 76 U.S. 298 - Secretary v. McGarrahan · 1869Most cited · 96 citing opinions
The writ cannot issue where discretion and judgment are to be exercised by the officer, and only in cases where the act required to be done is merely ministerial, and where the relator is without any other adequate remedy.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A ministerial act may be defined to be one which a person performs in a given state of facts, in a prescribed manner, in obedience to the mandate of legal authority, without regard to or the exercise of his own judgment, upon the propriety of the act being done. Acts done out of court in bringing parties into court are, as a general proposition, ministerial acts. Pennington v. Streight, 54 Ind. 376 ; Bair v. Struck, 29 Mont. 45, 74 Pac. 69, 63 I). R. A. 481; State v. Nash, 66 Ohio St. 612, 64 N. E. 558: Grider v. Tally, 77 Ala. 424, 54 Am. Rep. 65.
Defined under Ministerial in Black's Law Dictionary.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A ministerial act may be defined to be one which a person performs ina given state of facts, in a prescribed manner, in obedience to the mandate of legal authority, without regard to or the exercise of his own judgment, upon the propriety of the act being done. Acts done out of court in bringing parties into court are, as a general proposition, ministerial acts. 54 Ind. 376.