Railway Corporations as Public ServantsMacmillan, 1907 - 233 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 128 - That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act to charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of passengers or of like kind of property, under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line, in the same direction, the shorter being included within the longer distance...
Σελίδα 126 - ... like and contemporaneous service in the transportation of a like kind of traffic under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, such common carrier shall be deemed guilty of unjust discrimination, which is hereby prohibited and declared to be unlawful.
Σελίδα 199 - ... sense in which this gentleman appeared to think that they did. All laws of property must stand upon the foot of the general advantage, for a country belongs to its inhabitants; and in what proportion and by what rules its inhabitants are to own its property must be settled by law; and the moment a fragment of the people set up rights as inherent in them and not founded upon the public good, plain absurdities follow; for laws of property are like all other laws, to be changed when the public good...