| Frank J. Goodnow - Municipal government - 1895 - 326 pages
...and has been accepted without objection, as an essential element of the law of property ever since. Property does become clothed with a public interest...and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good. He may withdraw his grant by discontinuing the use, but so long as he maintains the... | |
| Chauncey F. Black, Samuel B. Smith - Constitutional history - 1895 - 808 pages
...and has been accepted without objection as an essential element in the law of property ever since. Property does become clothed with a public interest...the public an interest in that use, and must submit tobe controlled by the public for the commun gouil. to the extent of the iutery^est he has thus created.... | |
| Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1002 pages
...authority." The legislature can control, to some extent, the right to contract in reference to property " clothed with a public interest, when used in a manner...public consequence, and affect the community at large." " By devoting his property to a use in which the public has an interest, the owner, in effect, grants... | |
| James Bradley Thayer - Constitutional law - 1895 - 1214 pages
...and has been accepted without objection as an essential element in the law of property ever since. uere. There is nothing in Magna Charta, rightly construed as a broad charter of public right atfect the community at large. When,* therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public... | |
| William Weeks Morrill - Electric utilities - 1895 - 932 pages
...and has been accepted without objection as an essential element in the law of property ever since. Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public convenience, and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use... | |
| Science - 1888 - 900 pages
...test case (Munn vs. Illinois) was argued. The gist of the decision is in the following words : " When one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good... | |
| William Weeks Morrill - Electric utilities - 1895 - 1082 pages
...case. It was in general terms held in that case, that when the owner of property devotes it to a use in which the public has an interest, he in effect grants to the public an interest in such use, and must, to the extent of that interest, submit to be controlled by the public, for the... | |
| Pilot guides - 1895 - 284 pages
...public business is discussed at length in Munn v. Ill., 94 US 113. In that case it is said that, "when one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest he must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has... | |
| Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1008 pages
...CONTRACT. — The legislature can control to some extent the right to contract in reference to property clothed with a public interest, when used in a manner to make ii of public oomeqnence, and affect the community at large. It can fix the maximum of charge* for the... | |
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