Kansas Statutes 60-1202. Jurisdiction and grounds
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 60-1202
- Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
- Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
Such action may be brought in the supreme court or in the district court in the following cases:
(1) When any person shall usurp, intrude into or unlawfully hold or exercise any public office, or shall claim any franchise within this state, or any office in any corporation created by authority of this state.
(2) Whenever any public officer shall have done or suffered any act which by the provisions of law shall work a forfeiture of his or her office.
(3) When any association or number of persons shall act within this state as a corporation, without being legally incorporated.
(4) When any corporation does or omits acts which amount to a surrender or a forfeiture of its rights and privileges as a corporation, or when any corporation abuses its power or exercises powers not conferred by law.
(5) For any other cause for which a remedy might have been heretofore obtained by writ of quo warranto at common law.