Municipal Corporation Cases Annotated: A Collection of All Cases Affecting Municipal Corporations Decided by the Courts of Last Resort in the United States, Svazek 3Thomas Johnson Michie G.R.B. Michie & Company, 1900 |
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Strana 439 - grantee, is no infringement of that clause in the Bill of Rights of Kentucky, which declares that all freemen, when they form a social compact, are equal, and that no man or set of men are entitled to exclusive, separate public emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services. Louisville Gas Co. v.
Strana 695 - That all courts shall be open; and every man, for an injury done him in his lands, goods, person or reputation, shall have remedy by due course of law and right and justice administered without sale, denial or delay. Suits may be brought against the state in such manner and in such courts as the legislature may, by law, direct.
Strana 123 - two per centum of the value of the taxable property within such corporation, to be ascertained by the last assessment for state and county taxes previous to the incurring of such indebtedness ; and all bonds or obligations in excess of such amount given by such corporation shall be void.
Strana 766 - Appointments and promotions in the civil service of the state, and of all the civil divisions thereof, including cities and villages, shall be made according to merit and fitness to be ascertained, so far as practicable, by examinations, which, so far as
Strana 768 - whose election or appointment is not otherwise provided for by the constitution shall be appointed by such authorities thereof as the legislature shall designate for that purpose, which appointments shall be made according to merit and fitness, to be ascertained by competitive examinations, so far as practicable.
Strana 340 - that no law shall be passed granting to any citizen, class of citizens, or corporation other than municipal, privileges or immunities which, upon the same terms, shall not equally belong to all citizens or corporations,
Strana 544 - others; First, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied, or incident to the powers expressly granted; third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes of the corporation,—not simply convenient, but indispensable. City of
Strana 581 - 760) that the supreme court of the United States holds that state laws imposing upon property, according to legislative discretion, the cost of local improvements, do not deprive the owner of his property without due process of law, within the meaning of the fourteenth amendment. Davidson v. New Orleans (1877) 96 US 97, 104, 24 L. Ed. 616;
Strana 520 - receipts from that transportation, or on the occupation or business of carrying it on, for the reason that such taxation is a burden on that commerce, and amounts to a regulation of it, which belongs solely to congress." L,yng v. Michigan, 135 US 165, 10 Sup. Ct.
Strana 445 - constitution, which provides that "no county, city, town or other municipal corporation shall contract any debt, pledge its faith, or loan its credit, nor shall any tax be levied or collected by any officers of the same, except for the necessary expenses thereof, unless by a vote of the majority of the qualified voters therein.'