 | United States. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1924 - 1056 pages
...eminent domain. The Sower of taxation is self-explanatory; the police power has been efined as that inherent and plenary power in the State which enables it to prohibit things hurtful to the comfort, safety, and welfare of society; while the right of eminent domain is... | |
 | Law - 1887 - 1052 pages
...It has been variously defined by the courts and text writers. "It is," said one of the courts, "that inherent and plenary power in the state which enables...things hurtful to the comfort and welfare of society." Lakeview v. Kose Hill Cemetery, 70 111. 192. "All laws, " says another court, "for the protection of... | |
 | Tennessee Bar Association - Bar associations - 1905 - 1206 pages
...proceedings of whatever may be regarded as public nuisances." Again : "It is the inherent plenary power of a state which enables it to prohibit all things hurtful to the comfort and welfare of society." Again : "Whatever affects the peace, good order, morals and health of a community comes within its... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 1252 pages
...said by this court in State v. Burdge, 95 Wls. 390, on page 398, 70 N. W. 347, on page 349, is "that Inherent and plenary power in the state which enables it to prohibit all things hurtful to the comfort aud welfare of society." If it cannot be justified under this principle, then it becomes an unwarrantable... | |
 | United States. U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on interstate commerce - 1942 - 154 pages
...amendment even though property interests are affected. * * * The police power has been defined as that inherent and plenary power in the State which enables...it to prohibit all things hurtful to the comfort, safety, and welfare of society. * * * This power is very broad and far reaching, yet it is not without... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division - Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 784 pages
...co-extensive with self-protection, and is not inaptly termed ' the law of overruling necessity.' It is that inherent and plenary power in the State which enables...it to prohibit all things hurtful to the comfort, safety and welfare of socicty." App. Div.] THIRD DEPARTMENT, SEPTEMRER TERM, 1897. power of Congress... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 794 pages
...co-extensive with self-protection, and is not inaptly termed "the law of overruling necessity." It is that inherent and plenary power in the State which enables...it to prohibit all things hurtful to the comfort, safety and welfare of society. It may be exercised to control the use of property of corporations as... | |
 | 1924 - 1646 pages
...95 Wis. 390, at page 398, 37 LRA 157, 60 Am. St. Rep. 123, 70 NW 349, this court said : "It is that inherent and plenary power in the state which enables...things hurtful to the comfort and welfare of society." In the Trading Stamp Cases, 166 Wis. 613, at page 625, 166 NW 58, Ann. Cas. 1918D, 707, it is said:... | |
 | Philippines. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 1212 pages
...self-protection, and is not inaptly termed the 'law of overruling necessity.' It may be said to be that inherent and plenary power in the State which enables...it to prohibit all things hurtful to the comfort, safety and welfare of society." (Lake View vs. Rose Hill Cemetery Co. [1873], 70 111., 191.) Carried... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 958 pages
...further need be said. The rest is left to the discretion of the law-making power in the exercise of that plenary power in the state, which enables it to prohibit all things hurtful to the public welfare. ID. — HARMFUL EFFECT OF OPIUM — VALID REGULATION. — Opium is an active poison,... | |
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All persons and property are subjected to all necessary restraints »nd burdens, to secure the general comfort, health, and prosperity of the state"; and it has been said that "it is co-extensive with self-protection, and is not inaptly termed 'the law... 
