 ... a power reserved to the legislature to alter, amend or repeal a charter authorizes it to make any alteration or amendment of a charter granted subject to it, which will not defeat or substantially impair the object of the grant, or any rights vested...  Lawyers' Reports Annotated - Page 4321909Full view - About this book
 | Law - 1883 - 552 pages
...of 1877; and the corporation to pay him one-fourlh of the gross receipts from future sales of lots. A power reserved to the Legislature to alter, amend,...to secure either that object or any public right. Commissioners Inl. Fish. v. Holyoke Water Power Co., 104 Mass. 446, 451 ; Holyoke Co. v. Ly man, 15... | |
 | Law - 1894 - 922 pages
...subject to it, which will not defeat or substantially impair the object of the grant, or any right vested under it, and which the Legislature may deem...to secure either that object or any public right." Close v. Glenwood Cemetery, 107 US 466, 476; Water- works v. Schottler, 110 id. 347; Pennsylvania College... | |
 | Law - 1883 - 548 pages
...will not defeat or substantially impair the object of the grant' or any rights vested under it, aud which the Legislature may deem necessary to secure either that object or any public right. Commissioners Inl. Fish. v. Holyoke Water Power Co., 104 Mass. 446, 451 ; Holyoke Co. v. l .vu mu,... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 676 pages
...alteration or repeal at the pleasure of the legislature, reserves to the legislature the authority to make any alteration or amendment of a charter granted...may deem necessary to secure either that object or other public or private rights. After a manufacturing corporation, chartered with authority to construct... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1876 - 898 pages
...alteration, or repeal at the pleasure of the legislature, reserves to the legislature the, authority to make any alteration or amendment of a charter granted...may deem necessary to secure either that object or other public or private rights. Many decisions of the State courts might be referred to to the same... | |
 | 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 - 1908 - 604 pages
...which will not defeat or substantially impair the object of the grant, or rights of property which have vested under it, and which the Legislature may deem necessary to secure either that object or any other public or private rights. The power, it has been said, may be exercised in all cases and to any... | |
 | Pacific railroads - 1878 - 800 pages
...or repeal at the pleasure of the legislature, reserves to the legislature the authority to make auy alteration or amendment of a charter granted subject...legislature may deem necessary to secure either that ofyi ct or other public or private rights." Many decisions of the State courts might be referred to... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1266 pages
...Mugler v. Kansas, 123 US 623, 8 Sup. Ct 273; Budd v. New York, 143 US 517, 12 Sup. Ct 468. And also that "a power reserved to the legislature to alter,...to secure either that object or any public right." Close v. Glenwood Cemetery, 107 US 466, 476, 2 Sup. Ct. 267; Waterworks v. Schottler, 110 US 347, 4... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 1004 pages
...constitutional and valid, within the principle affirmed by this court in the case of The Holyoke Dam, that a power reserved to the legislature to alter,...to secure either that object or any public right. Com'rs on Inland Fishtries v. Holyoke Water-power Co. 104 Mass. 446, 451; Holyoke Co. v. Lyman, 15... | |
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