 | United States - 1840 - 574 pages
...founded, taken from the opinion of Judge Taney : " The continued existence of a government would be of no great value, if by implications and presumptions,...corporations. The rule of construction announced by the Court — (in the Bank of Providence case) — was not confined to the taxing power ; nor is it so limited... | |
 | United States - 1840 - 582 pages
...founded, taken from the opinion of Judge Taney : " The continued existence of a government would be of no great value, if by implications and presumptions,...corporations. The rule of construction announced by the Court — (in the Bank of Providence case) — was not confined to the taxing power ; nor is it so limited... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - Riparian rights - 1847 - 492 pages
...existence of government would be of no great value, if by implications and presumptions, it was to be disarmed of the powers necessary to accomplish the ends of its creation, and if the functions it was designed to perform, were to be transferred to the hands of corporations. While... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1851 - 716 pages
...purpose ofthe State to abandon it, does not appear." The continued existence of a government would be of no great value, if by implications and presumptions,...transferred to the hands of privileged corporations. While the rights of private property are sacredly granted, we must not forget that the community, also,... | |
 | Law - 1849 - 604 pages
...page 548, "the continued existence of a government would be of no great value, if, by implication* and presumptions, it was disarmed of the powers necessary...accomplish the ends of its creation ; and the functions it wat designed to perform, transferred to the hands of privileged corporations ;" and on pp. 549, 550,... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional law - 1854 - 674 pages
...purpose of the state to abandon it does not appear.' The continued existence of a government would be of no great value, if, by implications and presumptions,...functions it was designed to perform, transferred then to the hands of privileged corporations. The rule of construction announced by the court was not... | |
 | Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 836 pages
...purpose of the state to abandon it does not appear. The continued existence of a government could be of no great value, if, by implications and presumptions,...corporations. The rule of construction announced by the supreme court, in the case of The Providence Bank v. Billings and Pittman, reported in 4 Peters, 514,... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - Consideration (Law) - 1866 - 810 pages
...purpose of the Stato to abandon it docs not appear.' The continued existence of a government would be of no great value, if, by implications and presumptions,...transferred to the hands of privileged corporations." pp. 547, 548. Story, J., in a dissenting opinion of great length, maintained that the grant to the... | |
 | Isaac Fletcher Redfield - Railroad law - 1867 - 944 pages
...in my judgment, eminently just and conservative : ' The continued existence of a government would be of no great value, if by implications and presumptions...functions it was designed to perform transferred to privileged corporations.' The conclusion of this learned judge and eminent jurist is, that no claim... | |
 | Illinois - 1873 - 992 pages
...the United States, per Taney, Chief Justice, say : " The continued existence of a government would be of no great value if, by implications and presumptions,...necessary to accomplish the ends of its creation, and the function it was designed to perform transferred to the hands of privileged corporations. The rule of... | |
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The continued existence of a government would be of no great value if, by implications and presumptions, it was disarmed of the powers necessary to accomplish the ends of its creation, and the functions it was designed to perform, transferred to the hands... 
