Annual Report of the Attorney General of the State of MichiganMichigan Attorney General, 1919 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action ALEX amendment amount answer appears application appointed approval assessment Attorney authority bank bill board of supervisors bonds Chapter charge Circuit claim commissioners communication Company Constitution construction contract corporation county road Court Dear Sir December Department determination Detroit district effect election electors Estate express fact filed fixed follows franchise Fund given granted GROESBECK held highway hold Hospital House Ingham inst Insurance intention issue January John June land Lansing legislative Legislature letter March Mary matter Mich Michigan Michigan Railroad Number operative opinion organized paid passed patient payment period permit person petition present primary Prosecuting provisions Public Public Acts question raised reason received reference regarded registration request respectfully road commissioners salary SCHEDULE Section session specific statute submitted taken term thereof tion township trust village violation vote Wayne County
Popular passages
Page 82 - ... but the discount of bills of exchange drawn in good faith against actually existing values and the discount of commercial or business paper actually owned by the person negotiating the same shall not be considered as money borrowed...
Page 143 - Legislature shall not grant nor authorize extra compensation to any public officer, agent or contractor, after the service has been rendered or the contract entered into.
Page 170 - The rule is well settled, that where the law requires absolutely a ministerial act to be done by a public officer, and he neglects or refuses to do such act, he may be compelled to respond in damages to the extent of the injury arising from his conduct. There is an unbroken current of authorities to this effect. A mistake as to his duty and honest intentions will not excuse the offender.
Page 165 - If any bill be not returned by the governor within ten days, Sundays excepted, after it has been presented to him, it shall become a law in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the legislature, by adjournment, prevents its return, in which case it shall not become a law.
Page 55 - The legislature may also by general law prescribe the powers and duties of boards of supervisors in relation to highways, bridges and culverts; may provide for county and district road commissioners to be appointed or elected, with such powers and duties as may be prescribed by law; and may change and abolish the powers and duties of township commissioners and overseers of highways.
Page 152 - It may be said in general that there must be some actual or threatened exercise of power possessed, or supposed to be possessed by the party exacting or receiving the payment over the person or property of the party making the payment, from which the latter has no other means of immediate relief than by advancing the money.
Page 174 - ... limits of said municipality, whether such utility is operating under the terms of a franchise or otherwise, to join in submitting to the commission any question involving the fixing or determination of rates or charges, or the making of rules or conditions of service, and the commission shall thereupon be empowered, and it shall be its duty to make full investigation as to all matters so submitted and to fix and establish such reasonable maximum rates and charges, and prescribe such rules and...
Page 77 - estate ' and ' property,' as used in this act, shall be taken to mean the property or interest therein of the testator, intestate, grantor, bargainer or vendor, passing or transferred to those not herein specifically exempted from the provisions of this act, and not as the property or interest therein passing or transferred to individual legatees, devisees, heirs, next of kin, grantees, donees or vendees, and shall include all property or interest therein, whether situated within or without this...
Page 114 - The State shall not be a party to, or interested in, any work of internal improvement, nor engaged in carrying on any such work, except in the expenditure of grants to the State of land or other property...
Page 173 - ... nor shall any member of the General Assembly be interested, either directly or indirectly, in any contract with the State, or any county thereof, authorized by any law passed during the term for which he shall have been elected, or within one year after the expiration thereof.