 No person's property shall be taken, damaged or destroyed for or applied to public use without adequate compensation being made, unless by the consent of such person; and, when taken, except for the use of the State, such compensation shall be first made,...  The Southwestern Reporter - Page 71922Full view - About this book
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 2046 pages
...the use of the state, such compensation shall be first made, or secured by a deposit of money, and no irrevocable or uncontrollable grant of special...authority, shall be subject to the control thereof." The articles of the Revised Statutes of 1895 of Texas bearing on the question read as follows: "Art. 4463.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 2026 pages
...or uncontrollable grant of special privilege or immunities should be made, but that all privileges granted by the Legislature or created under Its authority shall be subject to the control thereof." The court further declares : "Under the Bill of Kights of that Constitution the Legislature could not reduce... | |
 | Homer S. Thrall - Texas - 1883 - 910 pages
...the use of the State, such compensation shall be first made, or secured by a deposit of money ; and no irrevocable or uncontrollable grant of special...authority, shall be subject to the control thereof. SEC. 18. No person shall ever be imprisoned for debt. SEC- 19. No citizen of this State shall be deprived... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1906 - 700 pages
...., * .,.'. . Section 17 of article I of the bill of rights of the same cpn,^ stitution provides that "no 'irrevocable. or uncontrollable grant of special...privileges and .franchises granted by the legislature, of .. o*,. cc— 20 •..,>'•. .io>n/. I t.;., -.'•*• £,: Opinion of the Court. 200 US created... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1390 pages
...the use of the state, such compensation shall be first made, or secured by a deposit of money; and no irrevocable or uncontrollable grant of special...authority, shall be subject to the control thereof." In G., C. & SF Ry. Co. v. Fuller, 63 Tex. 467, Judge Stayton discussed this provision as follows: "This... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1432 pages
...contract, which was 23 years after the adoption of the present Constitution, which specially provides that all privileges and franchises granted by the Legislature...or created under its authority shall be subject to its control, no obligation of contract between the city and said street railway company, or between... | |
 | Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker - Texas - 1888 - 266 pages
...the use of the State, such compensation shall be first made, or secured by a deposit of money ; and no irrevocable or uncontrollable grant of special...authority, shall be subject to the control thereof. SEC. XH.— 1. "What is a writ of habeas corpus f 2. Did any Governor of Texas ever suspend this right?... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 694 pages
...bartered away by the city council. In the last-mentioned case the Constitution of Texas provided that "no irrevocable or uncontrollable grant of special privileges or immunities shall be made, but all proceedings and franchises granted by the Legislature or created under its authority shall be subject... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick, Arthur George Sedgwick - Damages - 1891 - 856 pages
...Pittsburgh, B. & B. Ry. Co. v. McCloskey, 1 10 Pa. 436 ; Long v. Harrisburg & PR Co., 126 Pa. 143. munities shall be made ; but all privileges and franchises...authority shall be subject to the control thereof." In Texas the owner of land taken is said to be entitled to the intrinsic value of the land taken without... | |
 | Texas - Constitutional conventions - 1892 - 90 pages
...the use of the state, such compensation shall be first made, or secured by a deposit of money; and no irrevocable or uncontrollable grant of special...authority, shall be subject to the control thereof. SEC. 18. No person shall ever be imprisoned for debt. SEC. 19. No citizen of this state shall be deprived... | |
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