| Benjamin Burks Kendrick - History - 1914 - 428 pages
...question. As has already been shown, the practice has been otherwise. In countries where the common law prevails, it has been customary from time immemorial...beyond which any charge made would be unreasonable We know that this is a power which may be abused; but that is no argument against its existence. For... | |
| Charles Austin Beard - United States - 1914 - 418 pages
...that the usual practice had been otherwise. "In countries where the common law prevails," he said, "it has been customary from time immemorial for the...beyond which any charge made would be unreasonable. . . . The controlling fact is the power to regulate at all. If that exists, the right to establish... | |
| Isaiah Leo Sharfman - Railroads - 1915 - 248 pages
...question. As has already been shown, the practice has been otherwise. In countries where the common law prevails, it has been customary from time immemorial for the legislature to declare what shall be reasonable compensation under such circumstances, or, perhaps more properly speaking, to fix a maximum... | |
| Emory Richard Johnson, Thurman William Van Metre - Railroads - 1916 - 668 pages
...question." (Munn v. • Illinois, 94 US 114.) The reply of the court was: In countries where the common law prevails, it has been customary from time immemorial...beyond which any charge made would be unreasonable. . . . The controlling fact is the power to regulate at all. If that exists, the right to establish... | |
| ARTHUR N. HOLCOMBE - 1919 - 572 pages
...it, saying: "As has already been shown, the practice has been otherwise ... it has been custernary from time immemorial for the legislature to declare...reasonable compensation under such circumstances. . . . We know that this is a power which may be abused; but that is no argument against its existence.... | |
| James Calvin Reed - Commercial law - 1917 - 652 pages
...countries where the common law prevailb, it has been customary from time immemorial for the legLJature to declare what shall be a reasonable compensation...would be unreasonable. Undoubtedly, in mere private contract, relating to matters in which the public has no interest, what is reasonable must be ascertained... | |
| Administrative law - 1918 - 284 pages
...question. "As has already been shown, the practice has been otherwise. In countries where the common law prevails, it has been customary from time immemorial...beyond which any charge made would be unreasonable." And in Milwaukee Elec. R., etc., Co. v. Railroad Commission of Wis., 238 US 174, Mr. Justice Day said... | |
| Heiskell Bryan Whaling - Value - 1918 - 142 pages
...question. As has already been shown the practice has been otherwise. In countries where the common law prevails, it has been customary from time immemorial for the legislature to declare what shall be reasonable under such circumstances, or perhaps more properly, to fix a maximum beyond which any charge... | |
| Social sciences - 1918 - 514 pages
...question. As has already been shown the practice has been otherwise. In countries where the common law prevails, it has been customary from time immemorial for the legislature to declare what shall be reasonable under such circumstances, or perhaps more properly, to fix a maximum beyond which any charge... | |
| Needham Calvin Collier - Public service commissions - 1918 - 722 pages
...the charge to be reasonable is in itself a regulation as to price. "In countries where the common law prevails, it has been customary from time immemorial for the legislature to declare what shall be reasonable compensation. . . . or to fix a maximum beyond which any charge made would be unreasonable.... | |
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