 | Law - 1875 - 438 pages
...ls a rate or sum of money assessed on the person or property of a citizen by government for the use of the nation or State." " Taxes are burdens or charges...legislature upon persons or property to raise money for puplic purposes." Cooley's Const. Lim. 479. Coulter, J., In Northern Liberties v. St. John, 13 Penn.... | |
 | Law - 1871 - 530 pages
...welfare or safety. 4. Take it by virtue of the taxing power. Ib. 7. Taxation Is a legislative power, and taxes are burdens or charges Imposed by the legislature...persons or property, to raise money for public purposes, or to accomplish some governmental end. They cannot be Imposed for a private purpose. Ib. 8. The foundation... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 670 pages
...Imposition of a dnty or Impost for the support of government. Pray v. North. LU>., 81 Penn. St. 69. Taxes are burdens or charges imposed by the legislature upon persons or property, to ralw money for public purposes. Cooley on Const. LIm. 479. Again, Judge Cooley remarks (Id. 487) :... | |
 | Thomas Foster Withrow, Edward Holcomb Stiles - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 616 pages
...authority to levy and collect taxes, and assessments in the nature of taxes. Ibid. 131. What taxes are. Taxes are burdens or charges imposed by the legislature...persons or property to raise money for public purposes, or to accomplish some governmental end. A public governmental use or purpose is essential to a valid... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 750 pages
...is a rate or sum of money assessed on the person or property of a citizen by government for the use of the nation or state." " Taxes are burdens or charges...public purposes."* Coulter, J., in Northern Liberties v. St. John's Church^ says, very forcibly, "I think the common mind has everywhere taken in the understanding... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 788 pages
...TOPEKA. [No. 4. or sum of money assessed on the person or property of a citizen by government for the use of the nation or state." " Taxes are burdens or charges...persons or property to raise money for public purposes." Cooley Const. Lim. 479. Coulter, Justice, in Northern Liberties v. St. John's Church, 13 Penn. St.... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frderick C. Seibold - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 770 pages
...our country to be unlimited. It is " the power to destroy." McCalloch v. Maryland, 4 Wheat., 316. But taxes are burdens, or charges, imposed by the legislature...persons or property, to raise money for public purposes. Cooley's Const Lim., 479. \Vhen the legislature undertakes to tax, or authorize a tax in aid of a purely... | |
 | William Henry Burroughs - Local taxation - 1877 - 970 pages
...profession or occupation. This is a species of excise tax.2 § 4. Taxes : what and Inj whom imposed. — " Taxes are burdens or charges imposed by the Legislature...persons or property to raise money for public purposes, or to accomplish some governmental end." 8 The power to impose taxes is vested in the representatives... | |
 | Charles Theodore Boone - Corporation law - 1881 - 626 pages
...143. 12 Uulted States ». Bait. etc. KB Co. 7 Am. Law Beg. NS 757. § 87. Liability to taxation.— Taxes are burdens or charges imposed by the legislature...persons or property, to raise money for public purposes, or to accomplish some governmental cud.1 It is a pecuniary burden for the support uf government ;'¿... | |
 | Frederick Scott Wait - Creditors' bills - 1884 - 808 pages
...purpose, the value of that which it has actually received." 8 ' No taxation for private purposes.— taxes are burdens or charges imposed by the legislature...persons or property to raise money for public purposes. Cooley's Constitutional Limitations, p. 479. See Northern Liberties v. St. John's Church, 13 Pa. St.... | |
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Taxes are burdens or charges imposed by the legislature upon persons or property to raise money for public purposes."* Coulter, J., in Northern Liberties v. 
