| United States. Supreme Court - 1863 - Liczba stron: 76
...release of it may not exist; but, as the whole community is interested in retaining it undiminished, that community has a right to insist that its abandonment...purpose of the State to abandon it does not appear. The great object of an incorporation is to bestow the character and properties of individuality on a collected... | |
| Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1864 - Liczba stron: 622
...that a state has surrendered its power of improvement and public accommodation, the community have a right to insist that its abandonment ought not to...presumed in a case in which the deliberate purpose to abandon it does not appear." Upon the whole, I do not think the plaintiffs were entitled to sustain... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1874 - Liczba stron: 726
...government. As this court has said, the whole community is interested in retaining it undiminished, and has "a right to insist that its abandonment ought...purpose of the State to abandon it does not appear."* If the point were not already adjudged it would admit of grave consideration, whether the legislature... | |
| Theophilus Parsons - 1866 - Liczba stron: 810
...release of it may not cxisl , but, as the whole community is interested in retaining it undiminishcd, that community has a right to insist that its abandonment ought not to bo- preiamcd in a case in which the deliberate purpose of the State to abandon it does not appear."... | |
| Iowa. General Assembly - 1868 - Liczba stron: 1088
...consideration sufficiently valuable. But as the whole community is interested in retaining it undirniriished, that community has a right to insist that its abandonment...purpose of the State to abandon it does not appear. "The plaintiff would give to this charter the same construction as if it contained a clause exempting the... | |
| 1868 - Liczba stron: 894
...release of it may not exist ; but as the whole community is interested in retaining it undiminished, that community has a right to insist that its abandonment...purpose of the state to abandon it does not appear." And, again : " The power of legislation, and consequently of taxation, operates on all persons and... | |
| New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - 1868 - Liczba stron: 672
...that a State has surrendered its power of improvement and public accommodation, the community have a right to insist that its abandonment ought not to...purpose of the State to abandon it does not appear." Upon the whole, I do not think the plaintiffs were entitled to sustain the action. The grant to them... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1870 - Liczba stron: 788
...knows that the community is interested in retaining unimpaired, and that every corporator understood its abandonment ought not to be presumed in a case in which the deliberate purpose to abandon it does not appear. I have sought in vain in the sixtieth section of the act, in the act... | |
| Wisconsin. Railroad Commissioners' Department - 1875 - Liczba stron: 856
...essentisil to the existence of government, and that the relinquishment of such a power is never assumed. * * The case now before the court is, in principle, precisely...charter from a State. The act of incorporation is silent as to the contested power. The argument in favor of the proprietors of the Charles River bridge is... | |
| Isaac Grant Thompson - 1875 - Liczba stron: 866
...release of it may not exist; but, as the whole community is interested in retaining it undiminished, that community has a right to insist that its abandonment ought not to be presumed in a case in vhich the deliberate purpose of the State to abandon it does not appear." It is a rule, that public... | |
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