 | Law - 1849 - 604 pages
...must daily pass, the community have a right to insist, in the language of this Court above quoted, "that its abandonment ought not to be presumed in...purpose of the State to abandon it does not appear." * * • No one will question that the interests of the great body of the people of the State, would,... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 804 pages
...State ; citing the words of Mr. Chief Justice Marshall in Providence Bank v. Billings, 4 Pet. 514, 561, that "its abandonment ought not to be presumed in...purpose of the State to abandon it does not appear ;" citing, also, Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge, 11 Pet. 420; Minot v. Railroad Co., 18 Wall.... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - Judges - 1854 - 554 pages
...must daily pass, the community have a right to insist, in the language of this Court, above quoted, ' that its abandonment ought not to be presumed, in...purpose of the State to abandon it, does not appear.' " The opinion of the Chief-Justice, dismissing the bill, was concurred in by Judges Wayne, Baldwin,... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional law - 1854 - 674 pages
...must daily pass ; the community have a right to insist, in the language of the court above quoted, 'that its abandonment ought not to be presumed, in...purpose of the state to abandon it does not appear.' The continued existence of a government would be of no great value, if, by implications and presumptions,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1855 - 702 pages
...knows that the community is interested in retaining unimpaired, and that every corporator understood its abandonment ought not to be presumed in a case in which the deliberate purpose to abandon it does not appear." I have sough In vain in the sixtieth section of the act, in the act... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 690 pages
...sufficiently valuable to induce a partial release of it may not exist ; but as the whole community is interested in maintaining it undiminished, that community...purpose of the State to abandon it does not appear. The plaintiffs would give to this charter the same construction as if it contained a clause exempting... | |
 | Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 836 pages
...induce a partial release of it may not exist; but as the whole community is interested in retaining it undiminished, that community has a right to insist...purpose of the state to abandon it does not appear. Ibid. 51. The power of legislation, and consequently of taxation, operates on all the persons and property... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1854 - 566 pages
...ought not be presumed in a case Illinois and Michigan Canal v. Chicago and Rock Island Railroad Co. in which the deliberate purpose of the State to abandon it does not appear.' " Does such deliberate purpose appear in this case ? There is, indeed, no ground for pretence that... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1862 - 802 pages
...induce a partial release of it may not exist; but as the whole community is interested in retaining it undiminished, that community has a right to insist...purpose of the State to abandon it does not appear." It has always been considered by many of the members of the bar, that the Supreme Court, in their decision,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Banks and banking - 1863 - 76 pages
...induce a partial release of it may not exist; but, as the whole community is interested in retaining it undiminished, that community has a right to insist...purpose of the State to abandon it does not appear. The great object of an incorporation is to bestow the character and properties of individuality on... | |
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... that its abandonment ought not to be presumed, in a case in which the deliberate purpose of the State to abandon it does not appear. 
