 | Jesse Hardesty - Railroads - 1898 - 202 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... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1899 - 470 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. What more can we want than that to justify this legislation ? The whole... | |
 | Jesse Hardesty - Government ownership - 1899 - 276 pages
...subject to it, which will not defeat or substantially impair the object of the grant, or any right vested under it, and which the legislature may deem...either that object or any public right. . . . The conclusions of this court have been repeatedly announced to the effect that though railroad corporations... | |
 | Jesse Hardesty - Government ownership - 1899 - 274 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... | |
 | Railroad law - 1899 - 942 pages
...made" (WAITS, CJ, Sinking Fund Cases, 99 U. 8. 700) ; but any alteration or amendment may be made "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... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 1374 pages
...th« legislature, reserves to the legislature tbe authority to make any alteration or amendment of a charter granted subject to it, which will not defeat or substantially impair tbe object of the grant or any rights vested under it, and which the legislature may deem necessary... | |
 | New Jersey - Corporation law - 1899 - 422 pages
...authority to make any alteration or amendment in a charter granted subject to this section, that will defeat or substantially impair the object of the grant, or any rights which have vested under it. (Zabriskie v. Hackensack SF• NYR Co., 18 NJ Eq , 178.) The Legislature... | |
 | John Cassan Wait - Architects - 1900 - 728 pages
...is repealed. Therefore the legislature may make any alterations or amendments of a charter granted which will not defeat or substantially impair the object of the grant or any rights which are vested under it and which the legislature shall deem necessary to secure either that object... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 1148 pages
...has authority to make any alteration or amendment In a charter granted subject to such reserve power which will not defeat or substantially impair the object of the grant, or rights vested under it. and which it may deem proper to secure cither that object, or other public... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1978 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...necessary, to secure either that object or any public nght. Comrs. on Inland Fisheries v. Water Power Co., 104 Mass., 446, 451; Holyoke Co.?. Lyman, 15 Wall.,500,... | |
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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... 
