 | Henry Clifford Spurr, Ellsworth Nichols - 1917 - 1278 σελίδες
...to the declared objects and purposes of the corporation, not simply convenient, but indispensable. Any fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence...against the corporation, and the power is denied." This principle is sustained by many other decisions of our courts. Whatever contract was entered into... | |
 | Thomas Johnson Michie - 1917 - 1144 σελίδες
...the declared objects and purposes of the corporation — not simply convenient, but indispensable. Any fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence...against the corporation, and the power is denied. Of every municipal corporation, the charter or statute by which it is created is its organic act. Neither... | |
 | Wisconsin. Attorney General's Office - 1915 - 1192 σελίδες
...power of municipal corporations to appropriate money Dillon says: "Any fair, reasonable, substantial doubt concerning the existence of power is resolved by the courts against the corpora tion, and the power is denied. * * * Neither the corporation nor its officers can do any act,... | |
 | E. Lauterpacht - 1971 - 540 σελίδες
...the declared objects and purposes of the corporation — not simply convenient, but indispensable. Any fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence...against the corporation, and the power is denied. Of every municipal corporation the charter or statute by which it is created is its organic act. Neither... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1912 - 808 σελίδες
...v. City of Union Springs.] charters of municipal corporations are to be strictly construed, and any reasonable doubt concerning the existence of power...against the corporation, and the power is denied. — City of Kufaula v. McNabb, 67 Ala. 588, u89; Birmingham, &e, v. Birmingham Ry., 79 Ala. 465, 471... | |
 | Stephen L. Elkin - 1987 - 232 σελίδες
...purposes of the corporation—not simply convenient, but indispensable. Any fair, reasonable, substantial doubt concerning the existence of power is resolved...against the corporation, and the power is denied." 7 The result of this rule, which has been used by the judiciary right up to the US Supreme Court, has... | |
 | Stephen L. Elkin - 1987 - 232 σελίδες
...of the corporation — not simply convenient, but indispensable. Any fair, reasonable, substantial doubt concerning the existence of power is resolved...the courts against the corporation, and the power is denied."7 The result of this rule, which has been used by the judiciary right up to the US Supreme... | |
 | 1898 - 1242 σελίδες
...simply convenient and indispensable. And any fair and reasonable doubt concerning the existence of a power is resolved by the courts against the corporation, and the power is denied. Neither the corporation nor its officers can do any act or make any contract or incur any liability... | |
 | David L. Martin - 1990 - 228 σελίδες
...of the corporation — not simply convenient, but indispensable. Any fair, reasonable, substantial doubt concerning the existence of power is resolved...the courts against the corporation, and the power is denied.The practical importance of Dillon's Rule is that the city government must prove that the activity... | |
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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.... 
