Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations, المجلد 1Little, Brown, 1890 - 1516 من الصفحات |
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... says , " doting with age , have forgotten the names of their founders . " There , too , in " old , hushed Egypt and its sands , " on the banks of the Nile , are the massive ruins of Thebes ( Diospolis ) , the city of " the hundred gates ...
... says , " doting with age , have forgotten the names of their founders . " There , too , in " old , hushed Egypt and its sands , " on the banks of the Nile , are the massive ruins of Thebes ( Diospolis ) , the city of " the hundred gates ...
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... says , " The essential quality of all Cor- porations consists in this , that the Subject of the right does not exist in the individual members thereof ( not even in all the Mem- bers taken collectively ; ) but in the ideal Whole ; hence ...
... says , " The essential quality of all Cor- porations consists in this , that the Subject of the right does not exist in the individual members thereof ( not even in all the Mem- bers taken collectively ; ) but in the ideal Whole ; hence ...
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... says the writer just named , " arose the common conception of a municipal town ; that is , a community of which the citizens are members of the whole nation , all possessing the same rights , and subject to the same burdens , but ...
... says the writer just named , " arose the common conception of a municipal town ; that is , a community of which the citizens are members of the whole nation , all possessing the same rights , and subject to the same burdens , but ...
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... says this accurate and elegant historian , " to the same in- dependence with those in Italy . They acquired in France new privileges and immunities ; but the right of sovereignty remained entire to the king or baron within whose ...
... says this accurate and elegant historian , " to the same in- dependence with those in Italy . They acquired in France new privileges and immunities ; but the right of sovereignty remained entire to the king or baron within whose ...
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... says Lord Coke ( 4 Inst . 250 ) , " would require a whole volume of itself , " was not embraced in the general act of 5 and 6 Will : 4 , chap . 76 , but there was subsequently passed an important statute known as the London Corporation ...
... says Lord Coke ( 4 Inst . 250 ) , " would require a whole volume of itself , " was not embraced in the general act of 5 and 6 Will : 4 , chap . 76 , but there was subsequently passed an important statute known as the London Corporation ...
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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.