 | New York (State). - 1859 - 430 pages
...in proportion to the value of the property of the persons taxed, or that it shall not be apportioned according to the benefit which each tax-payer is supposed...receive from the object on which the tax is expended. The People, &c., vs. The Mayor, &c., of Brooklyn, 4 Comstock, p. 419 and 420. 3. A statute giving a... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - Dictionaries, Law - 1859 - 736 pages
...Appeals. In this case, assessment, (in the sense of a process,) was considered as the apportionment of a tax according to the benefit which each tax-payer...is supposed to receive from the object on which the taxis expended; and the same word, in the sense of a sum imposed and required to be paid, was regarded... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, Joel Tiffany - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 1050 pages
...territorial division of the State. * * * Kor have they ordained or forbidden that a tax shall be apportioned according to the benefit which each taxpayer is supposed...receive from the object on which the tax is expended. In all these particulars the power of taxation is unrestrained. * * * Taxation • is sometimes regulated... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, Erasmus Peshine Smith, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Joel Tiffany, Samuel Hand - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 704 pages
...in proportion to the value of the property of the person taxed, or that it shall not be apportioned according to the benefit which each tax-payer is supposed...receive from the object on which the tax is expended. The case holds in short, that the remedy against unwise or unjust modes of taxation is to be sought... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - Corporation law - 1873 - 478 pages
...local sovereignty.1 Xor has the constitution ordained or forbidden that a tax shall be apportioned according to the benefit which each tax-payer is supposed...receive from the object on which the tax is expended. In nil of these particulars, the power of taxation (in this state) is unrestrained." 4 NY 419. 427.... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 884 pages
...person taxed, or that it shall not be apportioned according to the benefit which each tax payer i« supposed to receive from the object on which the tax is expended." He finds such a tax recognized (that in, an assessment as distinguished from a general tax) by art.... | |
 | Sir Fortunatus Dwarris - Constitutional law - 1885 - 698 pages
...the law of a local sovereignty. Nor have they ordained or forbidden that a tax shall be apportioned according to the benefit which each tax-payer is supposed...receive from the object on which the tax is expended. In all these particulars the power of taxation is unrestrained." " The application of any one of these... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 910 pages
...the law as a local sovereignty." Nor have they ordained or forbidden that a tax shall be apportioned according to the benefit which each tax-payer is supposed...receive from the object on which the tax is expended. In all these particulars the power of taxation is unrestrained. The application of any one of these... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 1068 pages
...taxation and of apportioning taxation, or of assigning to each individual his share of the burden, is vested exclusively In the Legislature, unless the...is not at all a matter for judicial inquisition or review. Special assessments proceed upon the principle that certain property, peculiarly situated In... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - Corporation law - 1890 - 922 pages
...local sovereignty.' Nor has the Constitution ordained or forbidden that a tax shall be apportioned according to the benefit which each taxpayer is supposed...receive from the object on which the tax is expended. In all of these particulars, the power of taxation [in this State] is unrestrained." 4 NY 419, 427.... | |
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Nor have the}- ordained or forbidden that a tax shall be apportioned according to the benefit which each taxpayer is supposed to receive from the object on which the tax is expended. 
