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... The Pacific Reporter - Page 2781916Full view - About this book
| Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 942 pages
...othPattern, &c. v. Stephens, <£c. ers: fir.t/, those granted in express words; tecond, those necessarily and 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." (Dillon... | |
| Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 714 pages
...necessarily or fairly implied in, or incident to the powers expressly granted ; third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes of the corporation,...convenient, but indispensable. Any fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence of power is resolved by the courts against the corporation, and the... | |
| 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 840 pages
...exercise the following powers, and no others: First, those granted in express words ; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in, or incident to,...powers expressly granted; third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes of the corporation, — not simply convenient, but indispensable. Any... | |
| Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 734 pages
...granted to it in express words .or are necessarily or fairly implied in the powers expressly granted and' essential to the accomplishment of the declared objects and purposes of the corporation, (1 Dillon on Mun. Corp. — 5th ed. — sec. 237.) What police powers a local corporation or municipality... | |
| North Carolina. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 812 pages
...exercise the following .powers and no others : First, those granted in express words ; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to .the...expressly granted ; third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes of the corporation. Dillon Mnn. Corporations, Sec. 55 ; Spaulding v.... | |
| John Forrest Dillon - Corporation law - 1873 - 546 pages
...exercise, the following powers, and no others : First, those granted in express words ; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in, or incident to the...expressly granted ; third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes of the corporation — not simply convenient, but indispensable. Auy... | |
| D. C. Cloud - Monopolies - 1873 - 488 pages
...and no others: First, those granted in express words. Second, those necessarily or fairly implied, or incident^ to the powers expressly granted. Third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes of the corporation— not simply convenient, but indispensable." The... | |
| D. C. Cloud - Monopolies - 1873 - 556 pages
...and no others: First, those granted in express words. Second, those necessarily or fairly implied, or incident to the powers expressly granted. Third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes of the corporation -,not simply convenient, but indispensable." The same... | |
| Law - 1897 - 1116 pages
...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. Any fair,... | |
| Thomas Foster Withrow, Edward Holcomb Stiles - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 724 pages
...implied, or necessarily incident to the powers expressly granted ; third, those absolutely essential to the declared objects and purposes of the 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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