 | Law - 1882 - 992 pages
...police powers, which, as defined by Chief Justice Taney in the License Cases,2 " are nothing more nor less than the powers of government inherent in every...is to say, ' * the power to govern men and things." And Chief Justice Waite adds : " Under these powers the government regulates the conduct of its citizens,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 1288 pages
...pilot laws, which are yet admitted to be equally valid. But what arc the police powers of a State? They are nothing more or less than the powers of government inherent in every sovereignty to the extent of its dominions. And whether a State passes a quarantine law, or a law to punish offenses,... | |
 | West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, Edgar P. Rucker - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 940 pages
...which, as was said by Mr. Chief Justice Tauey in the license cases, 5 How. 583, 'are nothing more nor less than the powers of government inherent in every...government regulates the conduct of its citizens one toward another, and the manner each shall use his own property, when such regulations beeome necessary... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 1106 pages
...scope is supreme, to the exclusion of the power of the general government. Police power "is the power of government inherent in every sovereignty, that is to say, the power to govern men and things" (License Cases, 5 How. 504, 583, 12 L. Ed. 256), and when exercised by a state sovereignty extends... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 956 pages
...6 RCL 191 ; 12 CJ 910. [S, 6] Referring to the police powers of a state, It has been said that they are nothing more or less than the powers of government inherent In every sovereignty. License Cases, 5 How. 583, 12 L. Ed. 291. Indeed, the police power Is but another name for the power... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 1324 pages
...powers, which, as was said by Mr. Chief Justice Taney in the License Cases, 5 How. 583 [12 L. Ed. 256], are nothing more or less than the powers of government...* * * that is to say, • * * the power to govern man and things." This is the true test of the extent and character of the police power of the state.... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1909 - 672 pages
...hand, it may mean what Chief Justice Taney says: " But what are the police powers of a State ? They are nothing more or less than the powers of government inherent in every sovereignty to the extent of its dominion. And whether a State passes a quarantine law, or a law to punish offenses,... | |
 | Missouri. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 896 pages
...Munn v. Illinois, 94 US 113, 125, quoting from Chief Justice TANEY in the License Cases, 5 How. 583, "are nothing more or less than the powers of government...to say, . . . the power to govern men and things." It calls to its aid the subordinate powers — the taxing power, and the power of eminent domain —... | |
 | Minnesota - 1891 - 1050 pages
...citizens." Thurlmo v. Com., 5 Howard, 574, opinion. "But what are the police powers of the State? They are nothing more or less than the powers of government inherent in every sovereignty to the extent of its dominions. And whether the state passes a quarantine law, or a law to punish offences,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 1132 pages
...to the 14th Amendment. It said, that under tbe cowers of government inherent in every sover¡icnty, "the government regulates the conduct of its citizens...another, and the manner in which each shall use his own prop ?rty, when such regulation becomes necessary ror the public good;" and that, "in their cx¡rcise... | |
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They are nothing more or less than the powers of government inherent in every sovereignty to the extent of its dominions. 
