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" One whose rights, such as they are, are subject to state restriction, cannot remove them from the power of the state by making a contract about them. "
Public Utilities Reports - Page 80
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 431

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1976 - 1102 pages
...private contractual arrangements. This principle is summarized in Mr. Justice Holmes' well-known dictum: "One whose rights, such as they are, are subject to...power of the State by making a contract about them." Hudson Water Co. v. McCarter, 209 US 349, 357 (1908).13 Yet private contracts are not subject to unlimited...
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Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in ..., Volume 292

Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 684 pages
...was that they did, and the court quoted from Hudson County Water Co. v. McCarter, 209 US 349, that "one whose rights, such as they are, are subject to State restriction can not remove them from the power of the State by making a contract about them." The doctrine of Atlantic...
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The Federal Reporter: Cases Argued and Determined in the ..., Volumes 255-256

Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 2026 pages
...Water Co. v. McCarter, 209 US 349, 357 [28 Sup. Ct 529, 531 (52 L. Ed. S2S)J. it is said that: - '(me whose rights, such as they are, are subject to state...The contract will carry with it the infirmity of the subject-matter.' "In L. & N. R, R. Co. v. Mottley, 219 US 407, 482 [31 Sup. Ct. 265, 270 (55 L. Ed....
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The Northeastern Reporter, Volume 128

Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 994 pages
...Associated Press, supra ; Producers' Transp. Co. v. RR Cornm., California, 251 US 228, 40 Sup. Ct. 131. "One whose rights, such as they are, are subject to...The contract will carry with it the infirmity of the subject-matter." Hudson County Water Co. v. McCarter, 209 US 349, 357, 28 Sup. Ct. 529, 531 (52 L....
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The Southern Reporter, Volume 82

Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 932 pages
...McCarter, 209 US 349, 357, 28 Sup. Ct. 529, 531, 62 L. Ed. 828, 14 Ann. Cas. 560, it is said that: " 'One whose rights, such as they are, are subject to...The contract will carry with it the infirmity of the subject-matter.' "In Louisville & Nashville R R. Co. v. Mottley, 219 US 467, 482, 31 Sup. Ct 265, 270,...
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The New York Supplement, Volume 176

Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 1076 pages
...authority, and no longer." The Supreme Court of the United States has recently said that one whose rights are subject to state restriction cannot remove them...power of the state by making a contract about them. Union Dry Goods Co. v. Georgia Public Service Corporation, 248 US 372, 39 Sup. Ct. 117,63 L. Ed. ....
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The Control of Public Utilities, Volume 1

William Mills Ivins, Herbert Delavan Mason - Interstate commerce - 1908 - 1242 pages
...Yazoo & M. 7. R. Cc., 62 Miss. 607. [15] Regulative acts not violative of charter or contract rights. One whose rights, such as they are, are subject to...them from the power of the state by making a contract concerning them.— Hudson Water Co. v. McCarter, 209 US 349, 28 Sup. Ct. E. (US) 529, affg. sc 70...
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United States Reports: ... and Rules Announced at ...

United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 632 pages
...diversion of the waters of its important streams to points outside of\ its boundaries. One whose rights are subject to state restriction cannot remove them...power of the State by making a contract about them, and a contract illegal when made— 4such as one for diverting water from the State— is not within...
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Readings on American State Government

Paul Samuel Reinsch - Constitutional law - 1911 - 504 pages
...admit to be a great public good, and what it has it may keep and give no one a reason for its will. about them. The contract will carry with it the infirmity of the subject matter (Knoxville Water Company vs. Knoxville, 189 US 434, 438 ; Manigault vs. Springs, 199 US 473, 480)....
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Supreme Court Reporter, Volume 32

Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 884 pages
...Atlantic & P. Teleg. Co. v. Philadelphia, 190 US 160, 163, 47 L. ed. 095, 999, 23 Sup. Ct. Rep. 817; Hudson County Water Co. v. McCarter, 209 US 349, 357, 52 L. ed. 828, 832, 28 Sup. Ct. Rep. 529, 14 A. & E. Ann. Cas. 560. The only ground of title disclosed by the...
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