| George Van Santvoord - 1854 - 554 sider
...must daily pass, the community have a right to insist, in the language of this Court, above quoted, ' that its abandonment ought not to be presumed, in...purpose of the State to abandon it, does not appear.' " The opinion of the Chief-Justice, dismissing the bill, was concurred in by Judges Wayne, Baldwin,... | |
| George Ticknor Curtis - 1854 - 674 sider
...must daily pass ; the community have a right to insist, in the language of the court above quoted, 'that its abandonment ought not to be presumed, in...purpose of the state to abandon it does not appear.' The continued existence of a government would be of no great value, if, by implications and presumptions,... | |
| Benjamin Robbins Curtis, United States. Supreme Court - 1864 - 772 sider
...induce a partial release of it may not exist; but as the whole community are interested in maintaining it undiminished, that community has a right to insist...purpose of the State to abandon it does not appear." Can it be admitted then, — can it be established by any correct reasoning, — that this high sovereign... | |
| Richard Peters - 1860 - 836 sider
...it; that a consideration sufficiently valuable to induce a partial release of it may not exist; but as the whole community is interested in retaining...purpose of the state to abandon it does not appear. Ibid. 12. The power of legislation, and consequently of taxation, operate on all the persons and property... | |
| United States. Court of Claims - 1860 - 698 sider
...induce a partial release of it may not exist ; but as the whole community is interested in maintaining it undiminished, that community has a right to insist...purpose of the State to abandon it does not appear. The plaintiffs would give to this charter the same construction as if it contained a clause exempting... | |
| Illinois. Supreme Court - 1854 - 566 sider
...ought not be presumed in a case Illinois and Michigan Canal v. Chicago and Rock Island Railroad Co. in which the deliberate purpose of the State to abandon it does not appear.' " Does such deliberate purpose appear in this case ? There is, indeed, no ground for pretence that... | |
| 1862 - 802 sider
...it ; that a consideration sufficiently valuable to induce a partial release of it may not exist; but as the whole community is interested in retaining...purpose of the State to abandon it does not appear." It has always been considered by many of the members of the bar, that the Supreme Court, in their decision,... | |
| Rhode Island - 1862 - 1508 sider
...a consideration sufficiently valuable to induce a partial release of it, may not exist; but as tjie whole community is interested in retaining it undiminished,...purpose of the State to abandon it does not appear." It has always been considered by many of the members of the Bar, that the Supreme- Court in their decision,... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1863 - 76 sider
...it; that a consideration sufficiently valuable to induce a partial release of it may not exist; but, as the whole community is interested in retaining...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... | |
| Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1864 - 622 sider
...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... | |
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