 | 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 - 1891 - 782 pages
...that what is reasonable is a judicial, and not a legislative, question. As has already been shown, the practice has been otherwise. In countries where...circumstances, or, perhaps more properly speaking, to fix a maximum, beyond which any charge made would be unreasonable. Undoubtedly in mere private contracts,... | |
 | Law - 1921 - 510 pages
...Granger Cases looked to judicial history, and expressly limited the right to legislate in saying : "In countries where the common law prevails it has...to declare what shall be a reasonable compensation * * * (for property clothed with a public use). Undoubtedly in mere private contracts relating to matters... | |
 | Law - 1877 - 558 pages
...and that what IB reasonable is a judicial and not a legislative question. As has already been shown, the practice has been otherwise. In countries where...circumstances, or, perhaps more properly speaking, to fix a maximum beyond which any charge made would be unreasonable. Undoubtedly, in mere private contracts,... | |
 | Illinois - 1877 - 182 pages
...question. As has already been shown, the practice has been otherwise. In countries where the common-law prevails, it has been customary from time immemorial...circumstances, or, perhaps more properly speaking, to fix a maximum beyond which any charge made would be unreasonable. Undoubtedly, in mere private contracts,... | |
 | Edward Lillie Pierce - Railroad law - 1881 - 684 pages
...maintains the use, he must submit to the control." ..." In countries where the common law prevails, it lias been customary from time immemorial for the legislature...circumstances, or, perhaps more properly speaking, to fix a maximum beyond which any charge made would be unreasonable. Undoubtedly, in mere private contracts... | |
 | Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of California - Public utilities - 1882 - 664 pages
...it is the duty of the Courts to set it aside. Justice Waite, in the celebrated Granger Cases, says: "In countries where the common law prevails, it has...circumstances; or, perhaps more properly speaking, to fix a maximum beyond which any charge made would be unreasonable." [The italics are ours.] Now, the... | |
 | David Rorer - Railroad law - 1884 - 996 pages
...and that what is reasonable is a judicial and not a legislative question. As has already been shown, the practice has been otherwise. In countries where...circumstances, or, perhaps .more properly speaking, to fix a maximum beyond which any charge njade would be unreasonable. Undoubtedly, in mere private contracts,... | |
 | Nebraska. Supreme Court, David Allen Campbell, Guy Ashton Brown, Lorenzo Crounse, Walter Alber Leese, Lee Herdmen, Henry Clay Lindsay, Henry Paxon Stoddart - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 760 pages
...reasonable is a judicial and not a legislative question. As has already been shown, the practice is otherwise. In countries where the common law prevails,...circumstances; or, perhaps more properly speaking, to fix a maximum beyond which any charge made would be unreasonable. Undoubtedly, in mere private contracts... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 926 pages
...reasonable is a judicial and not a legislative question. As hits already been shown, the practice is otherwise. In countries where the common law prevails,...circumstances, or perhaps more properly speaking, to fix a maximum beyond which any charge made would be unreasonable. Undoubtedly in mere private contracts... | |
 | John Randolph Dos Passos - Interstate commerce - 1887 - 156 pages
...public interest. Mr. Chief-Justice Waite, who delivered the opinion of the court in that case, said : "In countries where the common law prevails, it has...circumstances, or, perhaps more properly speaking, to fix a maximum beyond which any charge made would be unreasonable. Undoubtedly, in mere private contracts... | |
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In countries where the common law prevails, it has been customary from time immemorial for the legislature to declare what shall be a reasonable compensation under such circumstances, or perhaps more properly speaking, to fix a maximum beyond which any... 
