 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 724 pages
...The People v. Board of Imp. of Union St. 43 id. 227. ) IV. It is a principle of universal acceptance that municipal corporations can levy no taxes, general...unless the power be plainly and unmistakably conferred, and the burden is upon the corporation to show the grant, either by express words or necessary implication.... | |
 | William Wait - Actions and defenses - 1878 - 1004 pages
...Gill (Md.), 383 ; State v. Linn County Court, 44 Mo. 504 ; Primm v. City of Belleville, 59 111. 142. The authority must be given either in express words, or by necessary implication, and it cannot be collected by doubtful inferences from other powers, or powers relating to other subjects,... | |
 | Law - 1879 - 552 pages
...Dillion on Mun, Cov. sec. 605, that "it is a principle universally declared and admitted, that municlpal corporations can levy no taxes, general or special,...the power be plainly and unmistakably conferred." It is true as contended by defendant that the power to tax has not been delegated to the City of St. Louis... | |
 | James Kirby - Law - 1882 - 462 pages
...Municipal Corporations, § 763, 3rd edition: «It is a principle universally declared and admitted that municipal corporations can levy no taxes, general or special, upon the inLabitant» or their property, unless the power be plainly and unmistakably conferred. § 764. Therefore... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 1148 pages
...474. Or, as Judge Dillon puts the same doctrine: "It is a principle universally declared and admitted that municipal corporations can levy no taxes, general...must be given either in express words or by necessary or unmistakable implication, and that It cannot be collected by doubtful inferences from other powers,... | |
 | Nebraska. Supreme Court, David Allen Campbell, Guy Ashton Brown, Lorenzo Crounse, Walter Alber Leese, Lee Herdmen, Henry Clay Lindsay, Henry Paxon Stoddart - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 802 pages
...council and mayor in levying taxes upon occupations or business. It is a principle universally declared that municipal corporations can levy no taxes, general...unless the power be plainly and unmistakably conferred. The authority must be given either by express words or by necessary implication, and it cannot be deCaldwell... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 1052 pages
...council aiid mayor in levying taxes upon occupations or business. It is a principle universally declared that municipal corporations can levy no taxes, general...unless the power be plainly and unmistakably conferred. The authority must be given either by express words or by necessary implications, and it cannot be... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 956 pages
...answer, the court delivered the following opinion: "It is a principle universally declared and admitted that municipal corporations can levy no taxes, general...unless the power be plainly and unmistakably conferred, and the authority must be clearly and strictly pursued. 2 Dill. Mim. Corp. § 768. Thus it appears... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 982 pages
...Selma, above quoted. Acts 1882 -S3. p. 414, § 27. "It is a principle universally declared and admitted that municipal corporations can levy no taxes, general...unless the power be plainly and unmistakably conferred. " Dill. Mun. Corp. (4th Ed.) § 703. Or, as sometimes more tersely stated, "municipal corporations... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 768 pages
...city of Santa Cruz does not authorize the city to levy such tax " for the streets and alleys thereof." Municipal corporations can levy no taxes, general...unless the power be plainly and unmistakably conferred. (Dill, on Munic. Corp., § 763; Caldwell v. Rupert, 10 Bush (Ky.), 182; SewaU v. St. Paul, 20 Minn.... | |
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It is a principle universally declared and admitted that municipal corporations can levy no taxes, general or special, upon the inhabitants or their property, unless the power be plainly and unmistakably conferred. 
