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... Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan - Page 576by Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Marquis B. Eaton, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1900Full 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... | |
| Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 726 pages
...the following powers and no others : "First, those granted in express words; second, those necessary or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly...indispensable. Any fair, reasonable doubt concerning the ex840 — 20 istence of the power is resolved by the courts against the corporation and the power is... | |
| North Carolina. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 812 pages
...shall appear necessary and best answer the purposes intended for regulatingend governing said town." It is a general and undisputed proposition of law,...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
...Holland v. Baltimore, 11 Md. 186. Extent of Power— Limitation — Canons of Construction. § 55. It is a general and undisputed proposition of law...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 - 556 pages
...and no others: First, those granted in express words. Second, those necessarily or fairly implied, or incident to the powers expressly granted. Third,...corporation -,not simply convenient, but indispensable." The same author, in treating upon aid to railroads, while admitting that the current of judicial decision... | |
| D. C. Cloud - Monopolies - 1873 - 494 pages
...and no others : First, those granted in express words. Second, those necessarily or fairly implied, or incident to the powers expressly granted. Third,...corporation — not simply convenient, but indispensable." The same author, in treating upon aid to railroads, while admitting that the current of judicial decision... | |
| Law - 1897 - 1116 pages
...law," says a distinguished jurist and eminent commentator in his excellent treatise on this subject, "that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise...fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence of apprehension, or conviction of offenders against tbe criminal laws of the State. Nor does any statute... | |
| 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...corporation — not simply convenient, but indispensable; and any fair doubt as to the existence of a power is resolved by the courts against the corporation... | |
| Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 854 pages
...shall appear necessary and best answer the purposes intended for regulating and governing said town." It is a general and undisputed proposition of law,...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... | |
| Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 550 pages
...words; 2. Those necessarily or fairly implied in or incidental to the powers expressly granted; 3. Those essential to the declared objects and purposes...corporation, not simply convenient, but indispensable." Where power to act is clearly given, the right of the city to act by its authorized officers or agents... | |
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