 | Massachusetts. Attorney General's Office - Attorneys general's opinions - 1915 - 396 pages
...Legislature the authority to make any alteration or amendment in a charter granted subject to it, that will not defeat or substantially impair the object of the grant, or any rights which have vested under it, and that the Legislature may deem necessary to secure either that object... | |
 | Law - 1883 - 552 pages
...Legislature to alter, amend, or repeal a charter authorizes it to make any alteration or amendment of a charter granted subject to it, which will not defeat...to secure either that object or any public right. Commissioners Inl. Fish. v. Holyoke Water Power Co., 104 Mass. 446, 451 ; Holyoke Co. v. Ly man, 15... | |
 | Law - 1883 - 548 pages
...Legislature to alter, amend, or repeal a charter authorizes it to make any alteration or amendment of a charter granted subject to it, which will not defeat...object of the grant' or any rights vested under it, aud which the Legislature may deem necessary to secure either that object or any public right. Commissioners... | |
 | Law - 1894 - 922 pages
...Legislature to alter, amend or repeal a charter authorizes it to make any alteration or amendment of a charter granted subject to it, which will not defeat...substantially impair the object of the grant, or any right vested under it, and which the Legislature may deem necessary to secure either that object or... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 676 pages
...legislature the authority to make any alteration or amendment in a charter granted subject to it, that will not defeat or substantially impair the object of the grant, or any rights which have vested under it, and that the legislature may deem necessary to secure either that object... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 740 pages
...the legislature ; reserves to the legislature the authority to make any alteration or amendment of a charter granted subject to it, which will not defeat or substantially impair the object of the grunt or any rights vested under it, and which tho legislature may deem necessary to secure either... | |
 | Wisconsin. Railroad Commissioners' Department - Railroad law - 1875 - 856 pages
...legislature the authority to make any alteration or amendment in a charter granted subject to it, that will not defeat or substantially impair the object of the grant, or any rights which have vested under it, which the legislature may deem necessary to secure either the object of... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1876 - 898 pages
...the legislature, reserves to the legislature the, authority to make any alteration or amendment of a charter granted subject to it, which will not defeat...may deem necessary to secure either that object or other public or private rights. Many decisions of the State courts might be referred to to the same... | |
 | Wisconsin - Wisconsin - 1876 - 1184 pages
...legislature the authority to make any alteration or amendment in a charter granted subject to it, that will not defeat or substantially impair the object of the grant, or any rights which have vested under it, which the legislature may deem necessary to secure either the object of... | |
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... a power reserved to the legislature to alter, amend or repeal a charter authorizes it to make any alteration or amendment of a charter granted subject to it, which will not defeat or substantially impair the object of the grant, or any rights vested... 
