 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - 1879 - 942 σελίδες
...to a legislative body such as a city council. EP BRADSTREET AND CLARK & SIMON FOR APPELLANTS. 1. " It is a general and undisputed proposition of law...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 σελίδες
...effect the purposes of their creation. In the work to which reference has been made it is stated : " It is a general and undisputed proposition of law,...municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the [New Orleans, Mobile, and Chattanooga Railroad Co. v. Dunn.] following powers, and no others : First,... | |
 | 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 σελίδες
...is not within the scope of the general powers of municipalities. Dillon lays down the rule that: " It is a general and undisputed proposition of law...indispensable. Any fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence of power is resolved by the courts against the corporation, and the power is denied. Of every... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1911 - 726 σελίδες
...unless the municipal authorities possess, under the constitution, the right to exercise such powers. "It is a general and undisputed proposition of law...indispensable. Any fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence of the power is resolved by the courts against the corporation and the power is denied."... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court - 1874 - 812 σελίδες
...shall appear necessary and best answer the purposes intended for regulatingend governing said town." It is a general and undisputed proposition of law,...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 σελίδες
...Holland v. Baltimore, 11 Md. 186. Extent of Power— Limitation — Canons of Construction. § 55. It is a general and undisputed proposition of law...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 - 494 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | D. C. Cloud - 1873 - 556 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | 1897 - 1116 σελίδες
...law," says a distinguished jurist and eminent commentator in his excellent treatise on this subject, "that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise...indispensable. Any fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence of apprehension, or conviction of offenders against tbe criminal laws of the State. Nor does... | |
 | Thomas Foster Withrow, Edward Holcomb Stiles - 1875 - 724 σελίδες
...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... 
