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" 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 powers... "
Handbook of American Constitutional Law - Page 437
by Henry Campbell Black - 1897 - 716 pages
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Reports of Civil and Criminal Cases Decided by the ..., Volume 14; Volume 77

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
...BRADSTREET AND CLARK & SIMON FOR APPELLANTS. 1. " It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the following powers and no othPattern, &c. v. Stephens, <£c. ers: fir.t/, those granted in express words; tecond, those necessarily...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of ..., Volume 51

Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 714 pages
...Railroad Co. v. Dunn.] following powers, and no others : First, those granted in express words ; secondly, those necessarily or fairly implied in, or incident...is resolved by the courts against the corporation, and the power is denied." Dillon Mun. Corp. § 55. The proposed corporate act of which complaint is...
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Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan, Volume 119

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 - 1900 - 840 pages
...municipalities. Dillon lays down the rule that: " It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise...is resolved by the courts against the corporation, and the power is denied. Of every municipal corporation, the charter or statute by which it is created...
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Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in ..., Volume 246

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...
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North Carolina Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the ..., Volume 70

North Carolina. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 812 pages
...intended for regulatingend governing said town." It is a general and undisputed proposition of law, that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise...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...
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The Law of Municipal Corporations, Volume 1

John Forrest Dillon - Corporation law - 1873 - 546 pages
...Limitation — Canons of Construction. § 55. It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses, and can exercise,...corporation — not simply convenient, but indispensable. Auy fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence ol power is resolved by the courts against the...
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Monopolies and the People

D. C. Cloud - Monopolies - 1873 - 556 pages
...purposes exclusively. Judge Dillon, in his valuable work on municipal corporations, says that "They can exercise the following powers and no others: First,...words. Second, those necessarily or fairly implied, or incident to the powers expressly granted. Third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes...
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Monopolies and the People

D. C. Cloud - Monopolies - 1873 - 494 pages
...purposes exclusively. Judge Dillon, in his valuable work on municipal corporations, says that " They can exercise the following powers, and no others :...words. Second, those necessarily or fairly implied, or incident to the powers expressly granted. Third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes...
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The Central Law Journal, Volumes 44-45

Law - 1897 - 1116 pages
...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...
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Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of Iowa: From the ..., Volume 2

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...
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