 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 964 pages
...a bargain between a company of adventurers and the public, the terms of which are expressed in the statute; and the rule of construction in all such...contract must operate against the adventurers and in favor of the public, and the plaintiffs can claim nothing tbat is not clearly given them by the act."... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 964 pages
...a bargain between a company of adventurers and the public, the terms of which are expressed in the statute, and the rule of construction in all such...contract must operate against the adventurers, and in favor of the public, and the plaintiff can claim nothing that is not clearly given by the act." This... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 1020 pages
...privileges by the public to a private corporation, and in a matter where the public interest is concerned; and the rule of construction in all such cases is...the terms of the contract must. operate against the corporation, and in favor of the public, and the corporation can claim nothing but what is clearly... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 712 pages
...them and the public, the terms of which are expressed in the statute; and the rule of construction is, that any ambiguity in the terms of the contract must operate against the company and in favor of the public; so that the proprietors can claim nothing which is not clearly... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 1160 pages
...privileges by the public, to a private corporation, and in a matter where the public interest is concerned; and the rule of construction in all such cases is now fully established to be this: "Thai any ambiguity in the terms of the contract must operate against the corporation, and in favor... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 1168 pages
...public, the terms of which ire expressed in the act of incorporation ; and the rule of construction is, that any ambiguity in the terms of the contract must operate against the corporation, and in favor of the public. The corporation, therefore, can claim nothing which is not... | |
 | Mississippi. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1178 pages
...consequence must be," etc. In Richmond Railroad Co. v. Louixa Railroad Co., 13 How. (US), 81, it was said: "The rule of construction in all such cases is now fully established to be this, ' tiiat any am biguity in the terms of the contract must operate against the corporation and in favor... | |
 | Myres S Mac Dougal, William Michael Reisman - Law - 1985 - 490 pages
...was held not to foreclose the State from later authorizing construction of a competing, free bridge. "[A]ny ambiguity in the terms of the contract, must...against the adventurers, and in favour of the public." 224 Another avoidance technique lay in the established law of municipal corporations to the effect... | |
 | R. Kent Newmyer - History - 1985 - 516 pages
...v. Billings in 1830. It was the guiding principle of the common law, too, where it was established that "any ambiguity in the terms of the contract, must operate against the adventurers and in favor of the public." Implied monopoly was bad economic policy, as well. "Modern science" would be... | |
 | David P. Currie - Law - 1992 - 518 pages
...is erected."54 Common law precedents established a rule of strict construction for public grants: " 'any ambiguity in the terms of the contract, must operate against the adventurers, and in favor of the public, and the plaintiffs can claim nothing that is not clearly given them by the act.'"55... | |
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This, like many other cases, is a bargain between a company of adventurers and the public, the terms of which are expressed in the statute ; and the rule of construction, in all such cases, is now fully established to be this ; that any ambiguity in the... 
