The Law of Municipal Corporations, Τόμος 1James Cockcroft, 1873 - 988 σελίδες The Law of Municipal Corporations by John Dillon Forrest, first published in 1873, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it. |
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... give extra compensa- tion ; to employ attorneys . 11. Contracts for public works ; rights of contractors . 12. Same : corporate control under stipulation . 13. Evidences of indebtedness ; negotiable bonds . 14. Ordinary warrants or ...
... give extra compensa- tion ; to employ attorneys . 11. Contracts for public works ; rights of contractors . 12. Same : corporate control under stipulation . 13. Evidences of indebtedness ; negotiable bonds . 14. Ordinary warrants or ...
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... give a detailed account of the origin and rise of cities and towns , nor to trace minutely the history of the rights , powers , and jurisdiction with which they are now generally invested . Such an inquiry more appropriately belongs to ...
... give a detailed account of the origin and rise of cities and towns , nor to trace minutely the history of the rights , powers , and jurisdiction with which they are now generally invested . Such an inquiry more appropriately belongs to ...
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... give security to keep the peace . These communities also undertook to provide for the security of property by the following : 1. Abolishing the right of the creditor to seize the effects of his debtor with his own hand and by his ...
... give security to keep the peace . These communities also undertook to provide for the security of property by the following : 1. Abolishing the right of the creditor to seize the effects of his debtor with his own hand and by his ...
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... gives the substance of all the charters of London from the time of William the Conqueror to the present . • Hallam's Middle Ages , vol . III . chap . VIII . successful , and more money was obtained , and with 76 [ CH . I. MUNICIPAL ...
... gives the substance of all the charters of London from the time of William the Conqueror to the present . • Hallam's Middle Ages , vol . III . chap . VIII . successful , and more money was obtained , and with 76 [ CH . I. MUNICIPAL ...
Σελίδα 87
... gives but little attention - a natural result of his want of import- ance , and of his inability to control the administration of municipal affairs . If the office be clothed with dignity and real anthority ; if the mayor shall be ...
... gives but little attention - a natural result of his want of import- ance , and of his inability to control the administration of municipal affairs . If the office be clothed with dignity and real anthority ; if the mayor shall be ...
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Σελίδα 173 - 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 expressly granted; third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes of the corporation — not simply convenient but indispensable.
Σελίδα 453 - That no person arrested or confined in jail, shall be treated with unnecessary rigor, or be put to answer any criminal charge, but by presentment, indictment or impeachment.
Σελίδα 92 - Among the most important are immortality, and if the expression may be allowed, individuality; properties by which a perpetual succession of many persons are considered as the same, and may act as a single individual.
Σελίδα 92 - It is chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men, in succession, with these qualities and capacities, that corporations were invented, and are in use. By these means a perpetual succession of individuals are capable of acting for the promotion of the particular object, like one immortal being.
Σελίδα 130 - It shall be the duty of the Legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments and in contracting debt by such municipal corporations...
Σελίδα 453 - That no freeman shall be convicted of any crime but by the unanimous verdict of a jury of good and lawful men, in open court, as heretofore used.
Σελίδα 410 - It is a doctrine not to be tolerated in this country that a municipal corporation, without any general laws either of the city or of the state, within which a given structure can be shown to be a nuisance, can, by its mere declaration that it is one, subject it to removal by any person supposed to be aggrieved, or even by the city itself. This would place every house, every business, and all the property of the city at the uncontrolled will of the temporary local authorities.
Σελίδα 446 - Indiana of 1857, for the incorporation of cities, mayors, in addition to their duties proper, have, "within the limits of cities, the jurisdiction and powers of a justice of the peace in all matters, civil and criminal, arising under the laws of the State, and for crimes and misdemeanors a jurisdiction co-extensive with the county.
Σελίδα 221 - The general assembly shall never authorize any county, city, town, or township, by vote of its citizens or otherwise, to become a stockholder in any joint stock company, corporation, or association...
Σελίδα 95 - They are local subdivisions of the state, created by the sovereign power of the state, of Its own sovereign will, without the particular solicitation, consent, or concurrent action of the people who Inhabit them.