 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 powers...  The Southwestern Reporter - Page 1431904Full 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
...legislative body such as a city council. EP BRADSTREET AND CLARK & SIMON FOR APPELLANTS. 1. " It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a...possesses and can exercise the following powers and no othPattern, &c. v. Stephens, <£c. ers: fir.t/, those granted in express words; tecond, those necessarily... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 714 pages
...the purposes of their creation. In the work to which reference has been made it is stated : " It is a general and undisputed proposition of law, that...municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the [New Orleans, Mobile, and Chattanooga Railroad Co. v. Dunn.] following powers, and no others : First,... | |
 | 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
...not within the scope of the general powers of municipalities. Dillon lays down the rule that: " It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a...can exercise the following powers, and no others: First, those granted in express words ; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in, or incident... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 726 pages
...the municipal authorities possess, under the constitution, the right to exercise such powers. "It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a...and can exercise the following powers and no others : First, those granted in express words ; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 812 pages
...appear necessary and best answer the purposes intended for regulatingend governing said town." It is a general and undisputed proposition of law, that...and can exercise the following .powers and no others : First, those granted in express words ; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - Corporation law - 1873 - 546 pages
...Holland v. Baltimore, 11 Md. 186. Extent of Power— Limitation — Canons of Construction. § 55. It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a...can exercise, the following powers, and no others : First, those granted in express words ; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in, or incident... | |
 | Law - 1897 - 1116 pages
...law," says a distinguished jurist and eminent commentator in his excellent treatise on this subject, "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... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 854 pages
...appear necessary and best answer the purposes intended for regulating and governing said town." It is a general and undisputed proposition of law, that...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... | |
 | Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 550 pages
...follows ; he says: "It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal cor• poration possesses and can exercise the following powers, and...others: 1. Those granted in express words; 2. Those necessary or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly granted ; 3. Those essential to... | |
 | Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 618 pages
...municipal corporation can exercise the following powers: 1st. Those granted in express words; 2nd. Those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly granted. 1 Dillon, Mun. Cor., sec. 89. We think the power of the city to grant a lease of the supply of water... | |
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