 That all charters and grants of or to corporations, or amendments thereof, and all other statutes, shall be subject to amendment or repeal at the will of the legislature', unless a contrary intent be therein plainly expressed...  Reports of Civil and Criminal Cases Decided by the Court of Appeals of ... - Page 592by Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - 1869Full view - About this book
 | Law - 1890 - 548 pages
...provided that thereafter "all charters aud grants of aud to corporations, or amendments thereof, -hall be subject to amendment or repeal at the will of the Legislature, unless a contrary intent be therein expressed." In 1869 this charter of 1838 was amended, granting in such an amendment an exclusive right... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1902 pages
...February It, 1856, provided that all privileges and franchises thereafter granted to corporations should be subject to amendment or repeal at the will of the legislature. The L. & PR Co. had theretofore been incorporated, nnd under iu charter had built and openited a street... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 962 pages
...TAXATION OP WATERWORKS. 1. Act Ky. Feb. 14, 1856, declares that all charters and grants to corporations, and all other statutes, "shall be subject to amendment...unless a contrary intent be therein plainly expressed." By the act of May 1, 1886, authorizing the city of Covington to construct waterworks, It wasdeclared... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 906 pages
...1S86 was passed subject to the provision in a general statute of Kentucky, above referred to, that all statutes 'shall be subject to amendment or repeal...unless a contrary intent be therein plainly expressed.' If that act in к any sense constituted a contract between the r¡ city and the commonwealth, the reservation... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 1066 pages
...reserved the power to amend or repeal all charters and grants to corporations, or amendments thereof, "at the will of the legislature, unless a contrary intent be therein plainly expressed." On the 17th of May, 1SSO, a general statute was passed, amending the revenue laws of the state. Acts... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 1036 pages
...provision in the general statutes of Kentucky, which took effect on the 1st day of December 1873, Is that "all charters and grants of or to corporations or amendments thereof, enacted or granted since the 14th of February, 185G, and all other statutes shall be subject to amendment... | |
 | John Fletcher Lacey - Railroad law - 1884 - 1404 pages
...County Court, 10 Bush (Ky.), 604. 1874. 2. — AH charters and grants of or to corporations, etc., shall be subject to amendment or repeal at the will...unless a contrary intent be therein plainly expressed. Act of February 14, 1858. Ib. 3. — A charter being acontract, when the original charter provided... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 782 pages
...reserving power to amend or repeal charters, and other laws." That statute is as follows : " § 1. That all charters and grants of or to corporations...will of the legislature, unless a contrary intent bo therein plainly expressed : Provided, That whilst privileges and franchises so granted may be changed... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 778 pages
...legislature of Kentucky enacted that "all charters and grants of and to corporations, or amendments thereof shall be subject to amendment or repeal at the will...the legislature, unless a contrary intent be therein expressed." By an act passed in 1869, amending the charter of a gas company which was subject to that... | |
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