| Law - 1919 - 364 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 Company vs. Railroad Commission of Wisconsin, 238 US 174, Mr. Justice Day said—... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1148 pages
...question. Аз has already been shown, the practice has been otherwise. In countries where the common law prevails, it has been customary from time immemorial...what shall be a reasonable compensation under such tirru instances, or, perhaps more properly speakiae. to fix a maximum beyond which any charge 134]... | |
| Alfred E. Kahn - Business & Economics - 1988 - 620 pages
...not a legislative question. ". . . 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.... | |
| Christopher Wolfe - Law - 1994 - 472 pages
...businesses "affected with a public interest" could be regulated, the Court dropped the observation that "undoubtedly, in mere private contracts, relating...no interest, what is reasonable must be ascertained judicially."13 Certain kinds of economic transactions, it appeared, could be restricted by courts under... | |
| Joseph F. Zimmerman - Political Science - 2004 - 328 pages
...determine what is reasonable compensation for utility services. He wrote: In countries where the common law prevails, it has been customary from time immemorial...a reasonable compensation under such circumstances ... the controlling fact is the power to regulate at all. If that exists, the right to establish the... | |
| Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn, Gary J. Jacobsohn - History - 2004 - 794 pages
...the legislature to declare what shall be a reasonable compensation under such circumstances. . . . Undoubtedly, in mere private contracts, relating to...no interest, what is reasonable must be ascertained jutlicially. But this is because the legislature has no control over such a contract. . . . Rights... | |
| Henry Clifford Spurr, Ellsworth Nichols - Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 1226 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." Munn v. Illinois, 94 US 113, 133 (24 L. ed. 77). In one of the most recent cases the same court said:... | |
| Law - 1918 - 984 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 Company vs. Railroad Commission of Wisconsin, 238 US, 174, Mr. Justice Day said (p.... | |
| Harry Gordon Hayes - Economics - 1928 - 600 pages
...Court refused to accept this analysis and said in Munn v. Illinois: " In countries where the common law prevails, it has been customary from time immemorial...a reasonable compensation under such circumstances ... we know that this is a power which may be abused; but that is no argument against its existence.... | |
| Kansas. Legislature. House of Representatives - Kansas - 1897 - 1512 pages
...question. As has a.1 ready been shown, the practice has b^en otherwise. In countries w here the common law prevails it has been customary from time immemorial...what shall be a reasonable compensation under such circunibtances, or perhaps, more properly speaking, to fix a maximum beyond which any charge made would... | |
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