 Counties are at most but local organizations, which, for the purposes of civil administration, are invested with a few functions characteristic of a corporate existence. They are local subdivisions of the State, created by the sovereign power of the State,...  The Development of County Government in Wisconsin - Page 71by Oliver Douglas Weeks - 1924 - 530 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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 - 1887 - 736 pages
...officers to be appointed : People v. Hurlbut, 24 Mich. 80 ; People v. Mahaney, 13 Mich. 482. Counties are local subdivisions of the State created by the...or concurrent action of the people who inhabit them : 1 Dill, on Mimic. Cor. ยง 23. Their officers are the agencies through which the State collects its... | |
 | Law - 1890 - 542 pages
...* They are local subdivisions of a State, created by the sovereign power of the State, of its jown sovereign will, without the particular solicitation,...concurrent action of the people who inhabit them." Board v. Mighels, 7 Ohio St. 109. A municipal corporation proper is created mainly for the interest,... | |
 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 910 pages
...liability exists, it must be upon the principles of the common law. Counties are local subdivisions of a state, created by the sovereign power of the state...concurrent action of the people who inhabit them. The former organization is asked for, or at least assented to, by the people it embraces; the latter... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - History - 1873 - 546 pages
...functions characteristic of a corporate existencc. They are local subdivisions of a state, ereated by the sovereign power of the state, of its own sovereign...concurrent action of the people who inhabit them. The former (municipal) organization is asked for, or at least assented to, by the people it embraces;... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 894 pages
..."Counties are local subdivisions of a state, created Overholser v. National Home for Disabled Soldiers. by the sovereign power of the state, of its own sovereign...concurrent action of the people who inhabit them. The former organization is asked for, or at least assented to by the people it embraces; the latter... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 668 pages
...solicitation or the free consent of the people who compose them, while counties are local subdivisions of a state, created by the sovereign power of the state of its own sovereign will, without the parOpinion of the Court. ticular solicitation, consent or concurrent action of the people, and almost... | |
 | Law - 1878 - 540 pages
...solicitation or the free consent of the people who compose them; counties are local subdivisions of a state, created by the sovereign power of the state...concurrent action of the people who inhabit them. The former organization is asked for, or at least assented to by the people it embraces ; the latter... | |
 | Nevada. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 518 pages
...subdivisions of a state, created by the sovereign power of tho state, of its own sovereign will, without tho particular solicitation, consent or concurrent action of the people who inhabit them. The former organization is asked for, or at least assented to, by the people it embraces; the latter... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 884 pages
...invested with a few functions characteristic of corporate existence. They are local sub-divisions of a State, created by the sovereign power of the State,...concurrent action of the people who inhabit them. The former (municipal) organization is asked for, or at least assented to, by the public it embraces... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 642 pages
...corporate existence. They are local subdivisions of a State, created by the sovereign power of the Stnte, of its own sovereign will, without the particular...concurrent action of the people who inhabit them. The former (municipal) organization is asked for, or at least assented to, by the public it embraces.... | |
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