De Facto and De Jure Officers

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1. What principally distinguishes a de jure officer from a merely de facto officer?
2. Which situation describes the usual de facto officer concept?
3. What public purpose principally supports recognition of otherwise lawful official acts of a de facto officer?
4. A person openly performs an existing office's duties under an apparently regular appointment later found defective. The…
5. A private stranger occupies a desk and signs purported permits without appointment, election, public recognition or any…
6. In an ordinary dispute about an otherwise lawful permit, one party seeks to invalidate it solely by collaterally attack…
7. A de facto licensing officer issues a document granting a power that the office itself has no statutory authority to gr…
8. Distinguish de jure and de facto officers. Explain why recognition of a de facto officer's otherwise lawful public acts…
9. A litigant attacks an otherwise lawful official act solely because its issuer was a de facto officer rather than a de j…
10. A de facto officer in good faith actually performs the duties of an office, and no de jure officer exists. Assuming all…
11. Does protection of a de facto officer’s otherwise lawful public acts necessarily prove that the officer has valid de ju…
12. Under Monserate’s stated general rule when a de jure officer exists, does a de facto officer’s good faith alone establi…