 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - 1879 - 942 lapas
...BRADSTREET AND CLARK & SIMON FOR APPELLANTS. 1. " It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the following powers and no othPattern, &c. v. Stephens, <£c. ers: fir.t/, those granted in express words; tecond, those necessarily... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1877 - 714 lapas
...Railroad Co. v. Dunn.] following powers, and no others : First, those granted in express words ; secondly, those necessarily or fairly implied in, or incident...corporation, — not simply convenient, but indispensable. Any fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence of power is resolved by the courts against the... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1900 - 840 lapas
...municipalities. Dillon lays down the rule that: " It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise...corporation, — not simply convenient, but indispensable. Any fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence of power is resolved by the courts against the... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1911 - 726 lapas
...constitution, the right to exercise such powers. "It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise...corporation, — not simply convenient, but indispensable. Any fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence of the power is resolved by the courts against... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court - 1874 - 812 lapas
...intended for regulatingend governing said town." It is a general and undisputed proposition of law, that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise...declared objects and purposes of the corporation. Dillon Mnn. Corporations, Sec. 55 ; Spaulding v. Lowell, 23 Rich. 71, 74. Our case seems to fall within... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - 1873 - 546 lapas
...Limitation — Canons of Construction. § 55. It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses, and can exercise,...corporation — not simply convenient, but indispensable. Auy fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence ol power is resolved by the courts against the... | |
 | D. C. Cloud - 1873 - 556 lapas
...purposes exclusively. Judge Dillon, in his valuable work on municipal corporations, says that "They can exercise the following powers and no others: First,...words. Second, those necessarily or fairly implied, or incident to the powers expressly granted. Third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes... | |
 | D. C. Cloud - 1873 - 494 lapas
...purposes exclusively. Judge Dillon, in his valuable work on municipal corporations, says that " They can exercise the following powers, and no others :...words. Second, those necessarily or fairly implied, or incident to the powers expressly granted. Third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes... | |
 | 1897 - 1116 lapas
...says a distinguished jurist and eminent commentator in his excellent treatise on this subject, "that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise...corporation— not simply convenient, but indispensable. Any fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence of apprehension, or conviction of offenders against... | |
 | Thomas Foster Withrow, Edward Holcomb Stiles - 1875 - 724 lapas
...necessarily implied, or necessarily incident to the powers expressly granted ; third, those absolutely essential to the declared objects and purposes of...corporation — not simply convenient, but indispensable; and any fair doubt as to the existence of a power is resolved by the courts against the corporation... | |
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It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the following powers and no others: First, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers... 
