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... Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of ... - Side 417av Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold - 1899Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - 1879 - 942 sider
...othPattern, &c. v. Stephens, <£c. ers: fir.t/, those granted in express words; tecond, those necessarily and fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly...corporation, not simply convenient, but indispensable." (Dillon on Mun. Cor., sec. 55.) 2. The extradition of criminals under treaty stipulations is provided... | |
| Alabama. Supreme Court - 1877 - 714 sider
...Railroad Co. v. Dunn.] following powers, and no others : First, those granted in express words ; secondly, those necessarily or fairly implied in, or incident...corporation, — not simply convenient, but indispensable. Any fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence of power is resolved by the courts against the... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1900 - 840 sider
...is not within the scope of the general powers of municipalities. Dillon lays down the rule that: " It is a general and undisputed proposition of law...corporation, — not simply convenient, but indispensable. Any fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence of power is resolved by the courts against the... | |
| Illinois. Supreme Court - 1911 - 726 sider
...unless the municipal authorities possess, under the constitution, the right to exercise such powers. "It is a general and undisputed proposition of law...corporation, — not simply convenient, but indispensable. Any fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence of the power is resolved by the courts against... | |
| North Carolina. Supreme Court - 1874 - 812 sider
...shall appear necessary and best answer the purposes intended for regulatingend governing said town." It is a general and undisputed proposition of law,...declared objects and purposes of the corporation. Dillon Mnn. Corporations, Sec. 55 ; Spaulding v. Lowell, 23 Rich. 71, 74. Our case seems to fall within... | |
| John Forrest Dillon - 1873 - 546 sider
...Holland v. Baltimore, 11 Md. 186. Extent of Power— Limitation — Canons of Construction. § 55. It is a general and undisputed proposition of law...corporation — not simply convenient, but indispensable. Auy fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence ol power is resolved by the courts against the... | |
| D. C. Cloud - 1873 - 494 sider
...and no others : First, those granted in express words. Second, those necessarily or fairly implied, or incident to the powers expressly granted. Third,...corporation — not simply convenient, but indispensable." The same author, in treating upon aid to railroads, while admitting that the current of judicial decision... | |
| D. C. Cloud - 1873 - 556 sider
...and no others: First, those granted in express words. Second, those necessarily or fairly implied, or incident to the powers expressly granted. Third,...corporation -,not simply convenient, but indispensable." The same author, in treating upon aid to railroads, while admitting that the current of judicial decision... | |
| 1897 - 1116 sider
...law," says a distinguished jurist and eminent commentator in his excellent treatise on this subject, "that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise...corporation— not simply convenient, but indispensable. Any fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence of apprehension, or conviction of offenders against... | |
| Thomas Foster Withrow, Edward Holcomb Stiles - 1875 - 724 sider
...necessarily implied, or necessarily incident to the powers expressly granted ; third, those absolutely essential to the declared objects and purposes of...corporation — not simply convenient, but indispensable; and any fair doubt as to the existence of a power is resolved by the courts against the corporation... | |
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