Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations, المجلد 1Little, Brown, 1890 - 1516 من الصفحات |
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... decided since the first publication , have been ex- amined , and the text and notes prepared without the assistance of others . While this edition embraces a summary of recent cases to the latest date , and contains substantial ...
... decided since the first publication , have been ex- amined , and the text and notes prepared without the assistance of others . While this edition embraces a summary of recent cases to the latest date , and contains substantial ...
الصفحة xiii
... decided by the courts con- cerning it . Accordingly he had no resource except to delve laboriously for his materials among hundreds of volumes ; but these have , one by one , been examined by him with a view to find all that could be ...
... decided by the courts con- cerning it . Accordingly he had no resource except to delve laboriously for his materials among hundreds of volumes ; but these have , one by one , been examined by him with a view to find all that could be ...
الصفحة xvi
... decided cases . Extent of legislative power over the private property of municipal corporations discussed . May be compelled by the legislature to pay debts not legally binding ; and to incur debts against their will . Power over trust ...
... decided cases . Extent of legislative power over the private property of municipal corporations discussed . May be compelled by the legislature to pay debts not legally binding ; and to incur debts against their will . Power over trust ...
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... decided that no corporation was valid without the sanction of the king , and most of the corporations from time to time applied to the crown for a grant or confirmation of privileges . Their dependence upon the crown was thus estab ...
... decided that no corporation was valid without the sanction of the king , and most of the corporations from time to time applied to the crown for a grant or confirmation of privileges . Their dependence upon the crown was thus estab ...
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... decided by a vote of a citizens ' meeting . Two meetings were held , but the noise , confusion , and vio- lence prevented discussion and determina- tion , and this provision was subsequently repealed . Speaking of the representative ...
... decided by a vote of a citizens ' meeting . Two meetings were held , but the noise , confusion , and vio- lence prevented discussion and determina- tion , and this provision was subsequently repealed . Speaking of the representative ...
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الصفحة 145 - It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the following powers and no others: First, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly granted; third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes of the corporation — not simply convenient but indispensable.
الصفحة 204 - No county, city, township, school district or other municipal corporation, shall be allowed to become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount, including existing indebtedness, in the aggregate exceeding five per centum on the value of the taxable property therein, to be ascertained by the last assessment for State and county taxes, previous to the incurring of such indebtedness.
الصفحة 37 - A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law. it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either expressly, or as incidental to its very existence.
الصفحة 512 - That no person arrested or confined in jail, shall be treated with unnecessary rigor, or be put to answer any criminal charge, but by presentment, indictment or impeachment.
الصفحة 38 - It is chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men in succession with these qualities and capacities that corporations were invented and are in use. By these means, a perpetual succession of individuals are capaple of acting for the promotion of the particular object, like one immortal being.
الصفحة 166 - That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community but in consideration of public services, which not being descendible, neither ought the offices of magistrate, legislator, or judge to be hereditary.
الصفحة 207 - ... No county or city shall be allowed to become indebted for any purpose or in any manner to an amount which, including existing indebtedness, shall exceed ten per centum of the assessed valuation of the real estate of such county or city subject to taxation, as it appeared by the assessment rolls of said county or city on the last assessment for state or county taxes prior to the incurring of such indebtedness...
الصفحة 115 - York of 1828, chap. 18, tit. 3, it was enacted that "the charter of every corporation that shall hereafter be granted by the legislature shall be subject to alteration, suspension, and repeal, in the discretion of the legislature.
الصفحة 201 - SEC. 18. .No county, city, town, township, Board of Education, or school district, shall incur any indebtedness or liability in any manner or for any purpose, exceeding in any year the income and revenue provided for it for such year, without the assent of two thirds of the qualified electors thereof voting at an election to be held for that purpose...
الصفحة 529 - The act of incorporation is to them an enabling act; it gives them all the power they possess; it enables them to contract, and when it prescribes to them a mode of contracting, they must observe that mode, or the instrument no more creates a contract than if the body had never been .incorporated.