 the obligation to do justice rests upon all persons, natural or artificial, and if a county obtains the money or property of others without authority, the law, independent of any statute, will compel restitution or compensation.  The Southwestern Reporter - Page 2401911Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 730 pages
...obligation to do justice rests upon all persons, natural and artificial, and if a county obtains the money or property of others without authority, the...statute, will compel restitution or compensation. But this is a very different thing from enforcing an obligation attempted to be created in one way,... | |
 | Law - 1881 - 638 pages
...obligation to do justice rests upon all persons, natural or artificial, and if a county obtains the money or property of others without authority, the...statute, will compel restitution or compensation." it is argued, however, that as the city was only authorized by law to borrow money at a rate of interest,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 2074 pages
...obligation to do justice rests upon all persons, natural and artificial: and, if a county obtains the money or property of others without authority, the...statute, will compel restitution or compensation." In the case of Louisiana v. Wood, 102 US 294, 26 L. Ed. 153, the following facts appear: On March 28,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 2096 pages
...upon all persons, natural and artificial, and, if a county obtains the money or property of other^ without authority, the law, independent of any statute, 'will compel restitution or compensation." See Louisiana v. Wood, 1102 IT. S. 294; Chapman v. County of Douglass, 107 US 348-355, 2 Sup. Ct. Rep.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 822 pages
...obligation to do justice rests upon all persons, natural or artificial, and if a county obtains the money or property of others without authority, the...statute, will compel restitution or compensation." It is argued, however, that, as the city was only authorized by law to borrow money at a rate of interest... | |
 | George Washington Field - Ultra vires - 1881 - 620 pages
...obligation to do justice rests upon all persons, natural and artificial, and if a county obtains the money or property of others without authority, the...statute, will compel restitution or compensation. But this is a very different thing from enforcing an obligation attempted to be created in one way,... | |
 | Law - 1881 - 556 pages
...obligation to do justice rests upon all persons, natural or artificial, and if a county obtains the money or property of others without authority, the...statute, will compel restitution or compensation." USS Ct. Judgment of US Circuit Court, ED Missouri, affirmed. Oily of Louisiana, plaintiff in error,... | |
 | Chauncey F. Black, Samuel B. Smith - Constitutional history - 1881 - 556 pages
...obligation to do justice rests upon all persons, natural and artificial, and if a county obtains the money or property of others without authority, the...statute, will compel restitution or compensation. But this is a very different thing from enforcing an obligation attempted to be created in one way,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 1302 pages
...obligation to do justice rests upon all persons, natural or artificial, and if a county obtains the money or property of others without authority, the...statute, will compel restitution or compensation." It is argued, however, that, as the City was only authorized by law to borrow money at a rate of interest... | |
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