The power we allude to is rather the police power, the power vested in the legislature by the constitution to make, ordain, and establish all manner of wholesome and reasonable laws, statutes, and ordinances, either with penalties or without, not repugnant... The New York Supplement - Page 7081904Full view - About this book
| Criminal law - 1885 - 704 pages
...In Commonwealth v Alger, 7 Cush. 84, SHAW, Ch. J., says, that the police power " was vested in the legislature by the Constitution, to make, ordain,...the Commonwealth, and of the subjects of the same. It is much easier to perceive and realize the existence and sources of the power than to mark its limitations... | |
| Criticism - 1884 - 928 pages
...commerce. Among other things, the Charter gave to the Legislature power as follows: "From time to time to make, ordain and establish all manner of wholesome and reasonable laws, statutes, ordinances, directions, and instructions, not contrary to the laws of the realm of England, as well... | |
| New England - 1894 - 808 pages
...and ordinances, either with penalties or without, so as the same be not repugnant or contrary to this Constitution, as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of this Commonwealth and for the government and ordering thereof, and of the subjects of the same and... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 786 pages
...instructions, either with penalties or without ; so as the same be not repugnant or contrary to this constitution, as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of this commonwealth." Dingley v. Boston, 100 Mass. 544 ; Lowell v. Boston, 111 Mass. 454 ; Turner v.... | |
| 1924 - 1654 pages
...at the time of the adoption of the Constitution is conferred upon the general court under the grant to make, ordain, and establish all manner of wholesome and reasonable laws not repugnant to the Constitution. There is analogy in this respect to the trial by jury preserved... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Antitrust law - 1964 - 344 pages
...Campbell, 91 Ariz. 195, 370 P. 2d 769. The police power of the State is the power vested in its legislature to make, ordain and establish all manner of wholesome...statutes and ordinances either with penalties or without as shall be judged to be good for the welfare of the state and its residents. Sweet v. Rechel, 159... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1964 - 344 pages
...Campbell, 91 Ariz. 195, 370 P. 2d 769. The police power of the State is the power vested in its legislature to make, ordain and establish all manner of wholesome...statutes and ordinances either with penalties or without as shall be judged to be good for the welfare of the state and its residents. Sweet v. Rechel, 159... | |
| Law - 1908 - 556 pages
...Ga. 438. Salus Populi Suprema lex. The Legislative discretion to make, ordain and establish all kinds of wholesome and reasonable laws, statutes and ordinances...penalties or without, not repugnant to the constitution, (Com. v. Alger, 42 Am. 450) can no more be bargained away than the power itself. Boyd v. Ala., 94 US... | |
| Mississippi. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 896 pages
...instructions, so that the same be not repugnant or contrary to the Constitution, as they shall adjudge to be for the good and welfare of the Commonwealth, and of the subjects thereof." If the construction of the State Constitutions be such as we have insisted it is, then it... | |
| South Dakota. Supreme Court - Court rules - 1912 - 734 pages
...again the definition of that great jurist. Justice Shaw, who defined it as: "The power vested in the Legislature by the Constitution to make, ordain, and...the commonwealth and of the subjects of the same." The federal power over interstate commerce is 'subject to the police power of the state when properly... | |
| |