 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1837 - 696 pages
...government intended to diminish its power of accomplishing the end for which it was created: and in a country like ours, free, active and enterprising ;...numbers and wealth; new channels of communication are doily found necessary both for travelEMINENT DOMAIN. and trade ; and are essential tp tho comfort,... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - Riparian rights - 1847 - 492 pages
...diminish its power of accomplishing the end for which it was created ; and in a country like this, free, active, and enterprising, continually advancing...both for travel and trade, and are essential to the prosperity and happiness of the people. The continued existence of government would be of no great... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1851 - 716 pages
...government intended to diminish its power of accomplishing the end for which it was created. And in a country like ours, free active and enterprising, continually...people. A State ought never to be presumed to surrender their power, because, like the taxing power, the whole community have an interest in preserving it... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1851 - 680 pages
...that the government intended to diminish its power of accomplishing the end for which it was created. A state ought never to be presumed to surrender this...community have an interest in preserving it undiminished," &c. The office of Canal Commissioner was " created for the purposes of government, and the officers... | |
 | Law - 1849 - 604 pages
...government intended to diminish its power of accomplishing the end for which it was created. And in a country like ours, free, active, and enterprising,...community have an interest in preserving it undiminished. And when a corporation alleges that a State has surrendered for seventy years its power of improvement... | |
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1854 - 650 pages
...adapt themselves to the existing state of things, not arbitrarily, but by natural gradations. "In a country like ours, free, active, and enterprising,...comfort, convenience, and prosperity of the people." (11 Peters, 420, 547.) The public have the right "to avail themselves of the lights of modem science... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1853 - 688 pages
...government intended to diminish its power of accomplishing the end for which it was created. And in a country like ours, free, active, and enterprising,...daily found necessary, both for travel and trade, and arc essential to the comfort, convenience, and prosperity of the people. A state ought never to be... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - Electronic books - 1854 - 550 pages
...existence of government. " A State ought never to be presumed to surrender this power," he says, " because, like the taxing power, the whole community have an interest in preserving it undiminished. And when a corporation alleges, that a State has surrendered, for seventy years, its power of improvement... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - Judges - 1854 - 554 pages
...existence of government. " A State ought never to be presumed to surrender this power," he says, " becanse, like the taxing power, the whole community have an interest in preserving it undiminished. And when a corporation alleges, that a State has surrendered, for seventy years, its power of improvement... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional law - 1854 - 674 pages
...government intended to diminish its power of accomplishing the end for which it was created. And in a country like ours, free, active, and enterprising, continually advancing in numbers and wealth, new chanJustice Story, on the other hand, adopted the opposite rule of construction, and came to the opposite... | |
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But the object and end of all government is to promote the happiness and prosperity of the community by which it is established ; and it can never be assumed that the government intended to diminish its power of accomplishing the end for which it was... 
