 | Samuel Owen - Law - 1850 - 416 pages
...of property are left solely dependant upon the will of the legislative body, without any restraint. The fundamental maxims of a free government seem to...liberty and private property should be held sacred." And in the case of Taylor v. Porter, (4 Hill, 145,) it was contended by one of the members of the court,... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1853 - 782 pages
...the will of the legislative body, without any restraint. The fundamental maxims of a free governmmt seem to require, that the rights of personal liberty and private property, should be held sacred." In Bonaparte vs. The Camden fy Amboy RR Co. (1 Baldwin's CCR 223,) it was adjudged, that the Legislatnre... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 536 pages
...rights of property are left solely dependent upon the will of a legislative body, without any restraint. The fundamental maxims of a free government seem to...the common principles of justice and civil liberty — lurked under any general grant of legislative authority, or ought to be implied from any general... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1855 - 834 pages
...be free where the rights of property are left solely to the legislative body without any restraint. The fundamental maxims of a free government seem to...the common principles of justice and civil liberty — lurked under any general grant of legislative authority or ought to be implied from any general... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 774 pages
...exercise of legislative authority." In the Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Story has held this language : " The fundamental maxims of a free government seem to...violate and disregard them, a power so repugnant to the com* Hatch vs. Vermont Central RR Co., 25 Vermont, p. 49, 61. t Hatch rs. Vermont Central RR Co., 25... | |
 | Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 836 pages
...rights of property are loft fairly dependent on the will of the leeislative body, without any restraint. The fundamental maxims of a free government seem to...least, no court of justice in this country would be justified in assuming, that the power to violate or disregard them, a power so repusnant to the common... | |
 | Samuel Smith Nicholas - Law - 1865 - 232 pages
...property; it can only be viewed as gross robbery or shameful swindling. As said by the Supreme Court: "The fundamental maxims of a free government seem...liberty and private property should be held sacred." What has Kentucky done that she should be made the victim of such a robbery ? What is her fault that... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 746 pages
...commenting upon the power of the legislature of Rhode Island under the charter of Charles II, said : " The fundamental maxims of a free government seem to...the common principles of justice and civil liberty, lurked under any general grant of legislative authority, or ought to be implied from any general expressions... | |
 | Great Britain - 1886 - 924 pages
...of property are left solely dependent on the will of a legislative body, •without any restraint. The fundamental maxims of a free Government seem to...the common principles of justice and civil liberty — lurked under any general grant of legislative authority, or ought to be implied from any general... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1868 - 776 pages
...rights of property are left solely dependent upon the will of a legislative body, without any restraint. The fundamental maxims of a free government seem to...the common principles of justice and civil liberty — lurked under any general grant of legislative authority, or ought to be implied from any general... | |
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The fundamental maxims of a free government seem to require that the rights of personal liberty and private property should be held sacred. At least, no court of justice in this country would be warranted in assuming that the power to violate and disregard... 
