 It is a well-settled rule of construction of grants by the Legislature to corporations, whether public or private, that only such powers and rights can be exercised under them as are clearly comprehended within the words of the act or derived therefrom...  The Southwestern Reporter - Page 1171896Full view - About this book
 | Iowa. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 670 pages
...? How would it be collected? " It is a well settled rule of construction of grants bv Legislatures to corporations, whether public or private, that only...act, or derived therefrom by necessary implication, regard being had to the objects of the grant. Any doubt or ambiguity arising out of terms used by the... | |
 | Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Austin Abbott - Corporation law - 1869 - 1028 pages
...sufficient acceptance. See Cooper «. Gooderich, Сто. Elu. 862. 10. Interpretation. It is a well settled rule of construction of grants by the legislature...corporations, whether public or private, that only such powers or rights can be exercised under them as are clearly comprehended within the words of the act, or derived... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - Corporation law - 1873 - 546 pages
...is a well settled rule of construction of grants by the legislature to corporations, whether l»Mic or private, that only such powers and rights can be...act, or derived therefrom by necessary implication, regard being had to the objects of the grant. Any ambiguity or doubt arising out of the terms used... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 598 pages
...intended to grant at all; so that, as held in Opinion of the Court. Minturn v. Lame, 23 How. (US), 435, "only such powers and rights can be exercised under...act or derived therefrom by necessary implication," doubtful claims as to power being always resolved against the corporation. This rule has been so repeatedly... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Samuel Freeman Miller - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 764 pages
...the case, therefore, is, whether or not the power was conferred by this 3d section of the charter. It is a well-settled rule of construction of grants...act or derived therefrom by necessary implication, regard being had to the objects of the grant. Any ambiguity or doubt arising out of the terms used... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 2072 pages
...This rule of construction is succinctly stated by the supreme court in Minturn v. Larue, 23 How. 436: "It is a well-settled rule of construction of grants...public or private, that only such powers and rights can Ix1 exercised under them as ¡ire clearly comprehended within tlio words of the act, or derived therefrom... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 880 pages
...expressed by Mr. Justice NBLSON in the case of Mint urn v. Larue, 23 How. 435, in the following language: " It is a well-settled rule of construction of grants...act, or derived therefrom by necessary implication, regard being had to the object of the grant. Any ambiguity or doubt arising out of the terms used by... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1012 pages
...23 How. 436, Mr. Justice Nelson delivering the opinion of the whole court, says it is a well settled rule of construction of grants by the legislature...act, or derived therefrom by necessary implication, regard being had to the objects of the grant. Any ambiguity or doubt arising out of the terms used... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 1170 pages
...Justice Nelson, in the case of Minturn v. Larue, 23 How. 435 [16 L. Ed. 574], in the following language : 'It Is a well-settled rule of construction of grants...only such powers and rights can be exercised under then) as are clearly comprehended within the words of the act, or derived therefrom by necessary implication,... | |
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