 | 1877 - 510 sider
...companies would be general, aud any law which relates to persons or things as a class in general, while one which relates to particular persons or things of a class is special and private. People v. O'Brien, 38 NY 103 ; White v. The Utica and Syracuse Railroad Co., 14 Barb.... | |
 | 1877 - 510 sider
...companies would be general, and any law which relates to persons or things as a class in geueral, while one which relates to particular persons or things of a class is special and private. People, v. O'Brien, 38 NY 103; While v. The Utica and Syracuse Railroad Co., 14 Barb.... | |
 | 1878 - 680 sider
...class to which it applies. A law which relates to persons or things, as a class, is general, but one which relates to particular persons or things of a class is special and private. 38 NT, 103; 14 Barb., 559; 18 Ohio St., 9, 85; 4 Am. L. TR, 174; 15 Iowa, 129; 20 Id.,... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.), Rowland M. Stover - 1878 - 678 sider
...companies would be general. A law which relates to persons or things as a class is general, but one which relates to particular persons or things of a class is special and private." By extending the privilege of becoming the lessee of The Bleecker Street and Fulton Ferry... | |
 | 1881 - 1112 sider
...by the terms of the Constitution, but whether it is expressly prohibited." The Court further said: " A statute which relates to persons or things as a class is a general law." A case involving a similar question afterwards came before the same Court, and it said: " We adhere... | |
 | 1885 - 524 sider
...applicable to each class, was in direct conflict with the Constitution. Mr. Justice PAXSON said : " A statute which relates to persons or things as a...particular persons or things of a class is special and conies within the constitutional prohibition. The necessity for classification is recognized in... | |
 | 1889 - 232 sider
...previous general laws; and that under the doctrine declared in Wheeler vs. Philadelphia, 77 Penna., 338, a statute which relates to persons or things as a class is a general law, whilst a statute which relates to particular persons or things of a class is special and comes within... | |
 | 1895 - 1172 sider
...powers and to matters of local government." Or, as is said in Wheeler v. Philadelphia, 77 Pa. St. 348: "A statute which relates to persons or things as a...particular persons or things of a class is special, and comes within the constitutional provision." There is no evidence here, from the provisions of this... | |
 | 1888 - 940 sider
...previous general laws; and that, under the doctrine declared in Wheeler v. Philadelphia, 77 Pa. St. 338, a statute which relates to persons or things as a...particular persons or things of a class is special, and comes within the constitutional prohibtion. We are happily relieved, however, from the decision... | |
 | 1886 - 1076 sider
...itself, and for the same reason their compensation must lie fixed by separate or distinct enactment. A statute which relates to persons or things as a class, is я general law, while a statute which relates to particular persons or things of a class is special,... | |
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Without entering at large upon the discussion of what is here meant by a - local or special law,' it is sufficient to say that a statute which relates to persons or things as a class is a general law, while a statute which relates to particular persons... 
