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... . In preparation : Hanabooks of the law on other subjects to be announced later . Published and for sale by West Publishing Co. , St. Paul , Minn . F8381 OF THE LAW OF PUBLIC CORPORATIONS By HENRY H. INGERSOLL The Hornbook Series.
... . In preparation : Hanabooks of the law on other subjects to be announced later . Published and for sale by West Publishing Co. , St. Paul , Minn . F8381 OF THE LAW OF PUBLIC CORPORATIONS By HENRY H. INGERSOLL The Hornbook Series.
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Henry Hulbert Ingersoll. OF THE LAW OF PUBLIC CORPORATIONS By HENRY H. INGERSOLL , LL . D. DEAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE SCHOOL OF LAW ST . PAUL , MINN . WEST PUBLISHING CO . 1904 COPYRIGHT , 1904 , BY WEST PUBLISHING CO . TO ...
Henry Hulbert Ingersoll. OF THE LAW OF PUBLIC CORPORATIONS By HENRY H. INGERSOLL , LL . D. DEAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE SCHOOL OF LAW ST . PAUL , MINN . WEST PUBLISHING CO . 1904 COPYRIGHT , 1904 , BY WEST PUBLISHING CO . TO ...
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... Wade v . Richmond , 18 Grat . ( Va . ) 583 ; State v . McFadden , 23 Minn . 40 ; State v . Commissioners , 12 Kan . 426 . 47 insure sufficient territory and population and prevent undue en- 34 ( Ch . 2 QUASI CORPORATIONS - COUNTIES , ETC.
... Wade v . Richmond , 18 Grat . ( Va . ) 583 ; State v . McFadden , 23 Minn . 40 ; State v . Commissioners , 12 Kan . 426 . 47 insure sufficient territory and population and prevent undue en- 34 ( Ch . 2 QUASI CORPORATIONS - COUNTIES , ETC.
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... Minn . 40 ; State v . County of Dorsey , 28 Ark . 378 . 60 PEOPLE v . INGERSOLL , 58 N. Y. 1 , 17 Am . Rep . 178 ; Shank- lin v . Madison Co. , 21 Ohio St. 575 . GOVERNMENT AND OFFICERS . 14. The administration of county affairs §§ 12 ...
... Minn . 40 ; State v . County of Dorsey , 28 Ark . 378 . 60 PEOPLE v . INGERSOLL , 58 N. Y. 1 , 17 Am . Rep . 178 ; Shank- lin v . Madison Co. , 21 Ohio St. 575 . GOVERNMENT AND OFFICERS . 14. The administration of county affairs §§ 12 ...
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... Minn . 55 , 83 N. W. 495 ; Wells v . Super- visors , 102 U. S. 625 , 26 L. Ed . 122 ; Warren County Agricultural Joint Stock Co. v . Barr , 55 Ind . 30 ; Rothrock v . Carr , 55 Ind . 334 ; Hooper v . Ely , 46 Mo. 505. As to the purchase ...
... Minn . 55 , 83 N. W. 495 ; Wells v . Super- visors , 102 U. S. 625 , 26 L. Ed . 122 ; Warren County Agricultural Joint Stock Co. v . Barr , 55 Ind . 30 ; Rothrock v . Carr , 55 Ind . 334 ; Hooper v . Ely , 46 Mo. 505. As to the purchase ...
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Page 608 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created. He may withdraw his grant by discontinuing the use; but, so long as he maintains the use, he...
Page 535 - What the company is entitled to ask is a fair return upon the value of that which it employs for the public convenience. On the other hand, what the public is entitled to demand is that no more be exacted from it for the use of a public highway than the services rendered by it are reasonably worth.
Page 601 - What the company is entitled to demand, in order that it may have just compensation, is a fair return upon the reasonable value of the property at the time it is being used for the public.
Page 23 - A municipal corporation proper is created mainly for the interest, advantage and convenience of the locality and its people ; a county organization is created almost exclusively with a view to the policy of the state at large...
Page 76 - ... where it may be gathered from the legislative enactment that the officers of the municipality were invested with power to decide whether the condition precedent...
Page 143 - (1) the existence of a charter or some law under which a corporation with the powers assumed might lawfully be created; and (2) a user by the party to the suit of the rights claimed to be conferred by such charter or law.
Page 264 - Offices are created for the benefit of the public, and private parties are not permitted to inquire into the title of persons clothed with the evidence of such offices and in apparent possession of their powers and functions. For the good order and peace of society their authority is to be respected and obeyed until in some regular mode prescribed by law their title is investigated and determined. It is manifest that endless confusion would result if in every proceeding before such officers their...
Page 29 - With scarcely an exception, all the powers and functions of the county organization have a direct, and exclusive reference to the general policy of the State, and are, in fact, but a branch of the general administration of that policy.
Page 2 - A body politic, or body incorporate, is a collection of many individuals, united into one body, under a special denomination, having perpetual succession under an artificial form, and vested, by the policy of the law, with the capacity of acting in several respects as an individual...
Page 1 - A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either expressly or as incidental to its very existence.