 It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the following powers and no others: First, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers...  The Oklahoma Law Journal - Page 4721909Full view - About this book
 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 942 pages
...othPattern, &c. v. Stephens, <£c. ers: fir.t/, those granted in express words; tecond, those necessarily and fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly...corporation, not simply convenient, but indispensable." (Dillon on Mun. Cor., sec. 55.) 2. The extradition of criminals under treaty stipulations is provided... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 714 pages
...Railroad Co. v. Dunn.] following powers, and no others : First, those granted in express words ; secondly, those necessarily or fairly implied in, or incident...corporation, — not simply convenient, but indispensable. Any fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence of power is resolved by the courts against the... | |
 | 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 - 1900 - 840 pages
...of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the following powers, and no others: First, those granted in express words ; second, those...corporation, — not simply convenient, but indispensable. Any fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence of power is resolved by the courts against the... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 812 pages
...law, that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the following .powers and no others : First, those granted in express words ; second, those...declared objects and purposes of the corporation. Dillon Mnn. Corporations, Sec. 55 ; Spaulding v. Lowell, 23 Rich. 71, 74. Our case seems to fall within... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - Corporation law - 1873 - 546 pages
...law that a municipal corporation possesses, and can exercise, the following powers, and no others : First, those granted in express words ; second, those...corporation — not simply convenient, but indispensable. Auy fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence ol power is resolved by the courts against the... | |
 | D. C. Cloud - Monopolies - 1873 - 494 pages
...work on municipal corporations, says that " They can exercise the following powers, and no others : First, those granted in express words. Second, those necessarily or fairly implied, or incident to the powers expressly granted. Third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes... | |
 | D. C. Cloud - Monopolies - 1873 - 556 pages
...valuable work on municipal corporations, says that "They can exercise the following powers and no others: First, those granted in express words. Second, those necessarily or fairly implied, or incident to the powers expressly granted. Third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes... | |
 | Law - 1897 - 1116 pages
...subject, "that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the following powers, and no others: First, those granted in express words; second, those...corporation— not simply convenient, but indispensable. Any fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence of apprehension, or conviction of offenders against... | |
 | Thomas Foster Withrow, Edward Holcomb Stiles - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 724 pages
...necessarily implied, or necessarily incident to the powers expressly granted ; third, those absolutely essential to the declared objects and purposes of...— not simply convenient, but indispensable; and any fair doubt as to the existence of a power is resolved by the courts against the corporation and... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 854 pages
...of law, that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the following powers and no others: First, those granted in express words; second, those...declared objects and purposes •of the corporation. Dillon on Mun. Corp., § 55; Spaulding T. Lowell, 23 Eich. 71, 74 Our case seems to fall within the... | |
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