| Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 710 pages
...agents or servants and those which are not, is, that public involuntary quasi corporations are mere political or civil divisions of the State, created by general laws to aid in the general administration of the government, and are not so liable, while those which are liable have... | |
| Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1880 - 730 pages
...for the Appellee. all the liabilities to which they are subject. Soper v. Henry County, 26 Iowa, 264. Counties are involuntary political or civil divisions of the State, created by general law. The county, the school district, the road district, are purely auxiliaries of the State. Considered... | |
| Iowa. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 656 pages
...unsafe conbuuy. dition, unless it is liable for defects in the public roads or highways themselves. Counties are involuntary political or civil divisions of the State, created by general statutes, to aid in the administration of government. They are essentially public in their character... | |
| Illinois. Appellate Court, James Bolesworth Bradwell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1880 - 710 pages
...still due him for expenses of deputy, and which latter sum he insists shall be paid him by the county. Counties are involuntary political or civil divisions of the state, created by general statutes, to aid in the administration of government. The statutes confer upon them all the powers... | |
| Illinois, Elijah Middlebrook Haines - Local government - 1883 - 598 pages
...217; Gate* ex re!., etc., v. Fitter, 12 Id, 667. (1) Counties are Involuntary qua»l corporation* | political or civil divisions of the State, created...general laws, to aid in the administration of the government. The itatute prescribes all the duties which counties owe, and impose all the liabilities... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 1026 pages
...dissenting. (Additional ByUabvt by Editorial Staff.) 2. COUNTIES ®=>3 — CREATION. "Counties" are agencies of the state, created by general laws to aid in the administration of the state government. [Ed. Note.— For other definitions, see Words «nd Phrases, First and Second Series, County.] Appeal... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 1148 pages
...under said lease. That there was no notice given by said board of its Intention to lease said rooms. Counties are Involuntary political or civil divisions...aid In the administration of the state government Their powers are created and defined by statute. The powers of the board of commissioners are limited,... | |
| Law - 1896 - 1166 pages
...incompetency was the proximate cause of the injury. The court said: "A county is a civil or political division of the state, created by general laws, to aid in the administration of the government, and in the absence of a statute imposing special duties, with corresponding liabilities,... | |
| James Henry Deering - Negligence - 1886 - 760 pages
...their liability for the acts of their officers. Counties are involuntary quasi corporations, being political or civil divisions of the State, created...by general laws to aid in the administration of the government. The statute prescribes all their duties and imposes all liabilities to which they are subject,... | |
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