Principle of "de facto authority"

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..... y's Constitutional Limitations, 8th Edn. Vol. II, p. 1357 is that: For the sake of order and regularity and to prevent confusion in the conduct of public business and in security of private rights .....

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..... he acts of an officer de facto are as valid and effectual, while he is suffered to retain the office, as though he were an officer by right, and the same legal consequences will flow from them for the .....

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