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 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1923 - 1092 pages
...if reasonable, was valid, and that in determining the question of reasonableness the Legislature was "at liberty to act with reference to the established...preservation of the public peace and good order." In Chiles v. Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. Co., the same test was held applicable to the rules and regulations... | |
 | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - Interstate commerce - 1948 - 978 pages
...test of reasonableness is the established usages, customs, and traditions of the people carried by it, the promotion of their comfort, and the preservation of the public peace and good order. Defendant states that it has long been its practice and that of other railroads of the South to maintain... | |
 | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - Interstate commerce - 1943 - 906 pages
...legislation be, as it was declared to be, "the established usages, customs and traditions of the people" and the "promotion of their comfort and the preservation of the public peace 5629491" — 14— vol. 256 46 and good order," this must also be the test of the reasonableness of... | |
 | Railroad law - 1896 - 746 pages
...be a large discretion on the part of the legislature. In determining the question of reasonableness, it is at liberty to act with reference to the established...a view to the promotion of their comfort, and the preserPlcssy c. Ferguson vation of the public peace and good order. Gauged by this standard, we cannot... | |
 | Norman Fetter - Carriers - 1897 - 888 pages
...legislature. In determining the question of reasonableness, it is at liberty to act with reference to established usages, customs, and traditions of the...the preservation of the public peace and good order. Gauged by this standard, we cannot say that a law which authorizes, or even requires, the separation... | |
 | William Dameron Guthrie - Political Science - 1898 - 304 pages
...be a large discretion on the part of the legislature. In determining the question of reasonableness it is at liberty to act with reference to the established...preservation of the public peace and good order." In this case the railroad was a purely local line, and no question as to the effect of 1 106 US 583.... | |
 | Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman - Antitrust law - 1900 - 676 pages
...be a large discretion on the part of the legislature. In determining the question of reasonableness, it is at liberty to act with reference to the established...the preservation of the public peace and good order. Gauged by this standard, we cannot say that a law which authorizes or even requires the separation... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1903 - 828 pages
...police power " must be reasonable * * * and in determining the question of reasonableness, the court is at liberty to act with reference to the established usages, customs and traditions of the people." Plessy v. Ferguson (1895) 163 US 537, 550. The purpose of an act is relevant to the inquiry whether... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1210 pages
...liberty to consider the established usages, customs, and traditions of the people, and to have in view the promotion of their comfort, and the preservation of the public peace and good order." We discover in this statute that which the learned court in the Grossman Case failed to find — that... | |
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