Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Illinois, Volume 300 |
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... CORPORATIONS - officers of village act as agents in signing municipal bonds . The statute authorizes a village to make public improvements and to issue bonds to be executed by such offi- cers as are authorized by ordinance , and the ...
... CORPORATIONS - officers of village act as agents in signing municipal bonds . The statute authorizes a village to make public improvements and to issue bonds to be executed by such offi- cers as are authorized by ordinance , and the ...
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... corporation of this State , and the fifth count also charged the defendant with uttering said forged bond in DuPage county . The first count charged the forgery had been committed with intent thereby to prejudice , damage and defraud ...
... corporation of this State , and the fifth count also charged the defendant with uttering said forged bond in DuPage county . The first count charged the forgery had been committed with intent thereby to prejudice , damage and defraud ...
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... CORPORATIONS - what is meant by capital stock of corporation . The capital stock of a corporation , unless the context of the char- ter indicates a different meaning , is an invariable sum fixed by the charter as the amount to be paid ...
... CORPORATIONS - what is meant by capital stock of corporation . The capital stock of a corporation , unless the context of the char- ter indicates a different meaning , is an invariable sum fixed by the charter as the amount to be paid ...
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... Corporation act , against a railroad company engaged in interstate commerce does not impose a burden upon interstate commerce . ( American Can Co. v . Emmerson , 288 Ill . 289 , and Hump Hairpin Manf . Co. v . Emmerson , 293 id . 387 ...
... Corporation act , against a railroad company engaged in interstate commerce does not impose a burden upon interstate commerce . ( American Can Co. v . Emmerson , 288 Ill . 289 , and Hump Hairpin Manf . Co. v . Emmerson , 293 id . 387 ...
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... Corporation act instead of under section 106 , as it was assessed by the Secretary of State . It is also charged that the assessment was wrongfully made upon the total amount of capital stock authorized to be issued under the laws of ...
... Corporation act instead of under section 106 , as it was assessed by the Secretary of State . It is also charged that the assessment was wrongfully made upon the total amount of capital stock authorized to be issued under the laws of ...
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Page 481 - Whether we are considering an agreement between parties, a statute, or a constitution, with a view to its interpretation, the thing we are to seek is, the thought which it expresses.
Page 259 - ... provide for the collection of a direct annual tax to pay, and sufficient to pay the interest on such debt as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal of such debt within eighteen years from the time of the contracting thereof.
Page 108 - That it is complete and regular upon its face; 2. That he became the holder of it before it was overdue, and without notice that it had been previously dishonored, if such was the fact; 3. That he took it in good faith and for value; 4. That at the time it was negotiated to him he had no notice of any infirmity in the instrument or defect in the title of the person negotiating it.
Page 434 - is free to recognize degrees of harm and it may confine its restrictions to those classes of cases where the need is deemed to be clearest." If "the law presumably hits the evil where it is most felt, it is not to be overthrown because there are other instances to which it might have been applied.
Page 448 - Granting to any corporation, association or individual any special or exclusive privilege, immunity or franchise whatever.
Page 434 - When the classification in such a law is called in question, if any state of facts reasonably can be conceived that would sustain it, the existence of that state of facts at the time the law was enacted must be assumed. 4. One who assails the classification in such a law must carry the burden of showing that it does not rest upon any reasonable basis, but is essentially arbitrary.
Page 106 - The acceptor by accepting the instrument engages that he will pay it according to the tenor of his acceptance; and admits: 1. The existence of the drawer, the genuineness of his signature, and his capacity and authority to draw the instrument; and 2. The existence of the payee and his then capacity to indorse.
Page 107 - The maker of a negotiable instrument by making it engages that he will pay it according to its tenor, and admits the existence of the payee and his then capacity to indorse.
Page 201 - An office is a public position created by the constitution or law, continuing during the pleasure of the appointing power, or for a fixed time, with a successor elected or appointed.
Page 99 - Whoever, by means of any instrument, medicine, drug or other means whatever, causes any woman, pregnant with child, to abort or miscarry, or attempts to procure or produce an abortion or miscarriage, unless the same were done as necessary for the preservation of the mother's life...