 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1835 - 624 pages
...be assumed. We will not say that a state may not relinquish it ; that a consideration sufficiently valuable to induce a partial release of it may not...presumed in a case in which the deliberate purpose of the »Ute to • abandon it does not appear. The great object of an incorporation is to bestow the character... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1837 - 696 pages
...the principle, in the following clear and emphaticlanguage. Speaking of the taxing power, he says, " as the whole community is interested in retaining...purpose of the state to abandon it does not appear." The case now before the Court, is, in principle, precisely the- same. It is a charter from a state.... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1838 - 728 pages
...Speaking of the taxing power, he says, ' as the whole community is interested in retaining it undimmished, that community has a right to insist that its abandonment...purpose of the State to abandon it does not appear.' The case now before the Court is, in principle, precisely the same. It is a charter from a State. The... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1838 - 618 pages
...retaining it undimmished, that community has a right to insist that its abandonment ought not to lie presumed, in a case in which the deliberate purpose of the State to abandon it does not appear." The case now before the Court is, in principle, precisely the same. It is a charter from a State. The... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...that a consideration sufficiently valuable to induce a partial release of it may not exist ; butjas the whole community is interested in retaining it...purpose of the state to abandon it does not appear^ The plaintiffs would give to this charter the same construction as if it contained a clause exempting... | |
 | United States - 1840 - 574 pages
...there was a deliberate purpose manifested ; for, " as the whole community is interested in maintaining it undiminished, that community has a right to insist,...purpose of the State to abandon it does not appear." Such was the language of Judge Marshall When it is recollected that an argument much relied upon in... | |
 | United States - 1840 - 582 pages
...there was a deliberate purpose manifested ; for, " as the whole community is interested in maintaining it undiminished, that community has a right to insist,...purpose of the State to abandon it does not appear." Such was the language of Judge Marshall When it is recollected that an argument much relied upon in... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1850 - 556 pages
...release of it may not exist ; but as the whole community is interested in retaining it undiminislied, that community has a right to insist that its abandonment...purpose of the State to abandon it does not appear.' " Adverting to the article of the constitution giving to congress the power to establish a uniform... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1851 - 716 pages
...daily pass — the community have a right to insist^ in the language of this Court above quoted — " that its abandonment ought not to be presumed in a case, in which the deliberate purpose ofthe State to abandon it, does not appear." The continued existence of a government would be of no... | |
 | Law - 1849 - 604 pages
...must daily pass, the community have a right to insist, in the language of this Court above quoted, "that its abandonment ought not to be presumed in...purpose of the State to abandon it does not appear." * * • No one will question that the interests of the great body of the people of the State, would,... | |
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We will not say. that a State may not relinquish it ; that a consideration sufficiently valuable to induce a partial release of it may not exist : but as the whole community is interested in retaining it undiminished, that community has a right to insist... 
