The inhabitants of a city or town cannot be compelled to give up rights in property, or to pay taxes, for purely aesthetic objects; but if the primary and substantive purpose of the legislation is such as justifies the act, considerations of taste and... Survey - Page 5161909Full view - About this book
| Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 712 pages
...could not compel the surrender of private rights in property for purely aesthetic purposes, still, if the primary and substantive purpose of the legislation is such as to justify the act, considerations of taste and beauty may enter in as auxiliary. This case was subsequently... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 1148 pages
...even for such purposes. In Welsh v. Swasey, supra, it Is said that, "If the primary and substantial purpose of the legislation is such as Justifies the...considerations of taste and beauty may enter In as auxiliary." And our predecessors have said, in speaking of an ordinance of Baltimore City, passed in pursuance... | |
| Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 796 pages
...will be needed, and the manner in which the land is laid out, and the nature of the approaches to it. with compensation for landowners, would have been...of the St. 1904, c. 333, for dividing parts of the city into two classes, in each of which there is a prescribed limit for the height of buildings, was... | |
| Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 1158 pages
...before the court, enacted under the right of eminent domain, 3T5 with compensation for land ownc"rs, would have been unconstitutional if it had been passed...enter in, as auxiliary. We are of opinion that the provisions of the Statutes of 1904, chapter 333. for dividing parts of the city into two classes, in... | |
| Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 1158 pages
...before the court, enacted under the right of eminent domain, 375 with compensation for land owners, would have been unconstitutional if it had been passed...beauty may enter in, as auxiliary. We are of opinion thut the provisions of the Statutes of 1904, chapter 333, for dividing parts of the city into two classes,... | |
| American Civic Association - 1916 - 416 pages
...fruit. APOLOGETIC ESTHETICS .JP* SL8 AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION of the legislation is such as to justify the act, considerations of taste and beauty may enter in, as auxiliary." The reason we want to get rid of billboards along railroads and in the business section, as well as... | |
| Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 1266 pages
...Swasey, 193 Mass. 3G4, 118 Am. St. Rep. 523, 79 NE 745, it is said that, "if the primary and substantial purpose of the legislation is such as justifies the...considerations of taste and beauty may enter in as auxiliary." And our predecessors have said in speaking of an ordinance of Baltimore City passed in pursuance of... | |
| Flavel Shurtleff, Frederick Law Olmsted - City planning - 1914 - 370 pages
...the architectural symmetry of Copley Square," or "merely for the benef1t of individual landowners." The inhabitants of a city or town cannot be compelled...substantive purpose of the legislation is such as justif1es the act, considerations of taste and beauty may enter in, as auxiliary. We are of opinion... | |
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