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 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1837 - 696 pages
...be presumed, in a case, in which the deliberate purpose of the state to abandon it does not appear." The continued existence of a government would be of...corporations. The rule of construction announced by the Court, was not confined to the taxing power; nor is it so limited in the opinion delivered. On the .contrary,... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - Riparian rights - 1847 - 492 pages
...trade, and are essential to the prosperity and happiness of the people. The continued existence of government would be of no great value, if by implications and presumptions, it was to be disarmed of the powers necessary to accomplish the ends of its creation, and if the functions... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1851 - 716 pages
...be presumed in a case, in which the deliberate purpose ofthe State to abandon it, does not appear." The continued existence of a government would be of...transferred to the hands of privileged corporations. While the rights of private property are sacredly granted, we must not forget that the community, also,... | |
 | Law - 1849 - 604 pages
...community, than would be done in a like case in an English Court of Justice.'' And again, on page 548, "the continued existence of a government would be of no great value, if, by implication* and presumptions, it was disarmed of the powers necessary to accomplish the ends of its... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional law - 1854 - 674 pages
...be presumed, in a case in which the deliberate purpose of the state to abandon it does not appear.' The continued existence of a government would be of...functions it was designed to perform, transferred then to the hands of privileged corporations. The rule of construction announced by the court was not... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1855 - 702 pages
...be presumed in. a case in which the deliberate purpose of the State to abandon it does not appear.' The continued existence of a government would be of...transferred to the hands of privileged corporations. Thf rule of construction announced by the court in 4 Peters, 514, was not confined to the taxing power... | |
 | Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 836 pages
...deliberate purpose of the state to abandon it does not appear. The continued existence of a government could be of no great value, if, by implications and presumptions,...corporations. The rule of construction announced by the supreme court, in the case of The Providence Bank v. Billings and Pittman, reported in 4 Peters, 514,... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - Consideration (Law) - 1866 - 810 pages
...l>e presumed in a casein which the deliberate purpose of the Stato to abandon it docs not appear.' The continued existence of a government would be of...transferred to the hands of privileged corporations." pp. 547, 548. Story, J., in a dissenting opinion of great length, maintained that the grant to the... | |
 | Isaac Fletcher Redfield - Railroad law - 1867 - 930 pages
...Bridge, 11 Peters, 548, is still more specific, and, in my judgment, eminently just and conservative : 4 The continued existence of a government would be of...functions it was designed to perform transferred to privileged corporations.' The conclusion of this learned judge and eminent jurist is, that no claim... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 788 pages
...ought not to be presumed in a case in which the deliberate purpose to do so did not appear, and says: " The continued existence of a government would be of...corporations. The rule of construction announced by the court was not confined to the taxing power; nor is it so limited in the opinion delivered. On the contrary,... | |
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