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... void , as being in derogation of the sovereignty of the State , and opposed to sound public policy ; and the Pennsylvania court , in the case referred to , undoubtedly used an unguarded ex- pression , and merely intended to convey the ...
... void , as being in derogation of the sovereignty of the State , and opposed to sound public policy ; and the Pennsylvania court , in the case referred to , undoubtedly used an unguarded ex- pression , and merely intended to convey the ...
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Horace Gay Wood. legislature , or the charter shall become void , both the expenditure of the money and the completion of the road within the times respect- ively named therefor , are conditions which must be complied with or the ...
Horace Gay Wood. legislature , or the charter shall become void , both the expenditure of the money and the completion of the road within the times respect- ively named therefor , are conditions which must be complied with or the ...
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... void . 129 . 6 N. O. J. & G. N. R. R. Co. v . Wal- lace , 50 Miss . 244 ; County of Alleghany v . Cleveland , & c . R. R. Co. , 51 Penn . St. 228 ; Ohio & Miss . R. R. Co. v . Wheeler , 1 Black ( U. S. ) , 286 ; Day v . Newark Rubber Co ...
... void . 129 . 6 N. O. J. & G. N. R. R. Co. v . Wal- lace , 50 Miss . 244 ; County of Alleghany v . Cleveland , & c . R. R. Co. , 51 Penn . St. 228 ; Ohio & Miss . R. R. Co. v . Wheeler , 1 Black ( U. S. ) , 286 ; Day v . Newark Rubber Co ...
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... void , but such subscriber will in equity be regarded as holding it in trust for all the subscribers or for the party entitled ; and a party who claims to have been injured by a wrong distribution of stock , and who seeks redress ...
... void , but such subscriber will in equity be regarded as holding it in trust for all the subscribers or for the party entitled ; and a party who claims to have been injured by a wrong distribution of stock , and who seeks redress ...
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... void , " If said company shall not expend the sum of fifty thousand dollars upon said railroad , or way , within four years after the passage of this act . " Noth- ing having been done under the charter , the legislature , in 1846 ...
... void , " If said company shall not expend the sum of fifty thousand dollars upon said railroad , or way , within four years after the passage of this act . " Noth- ing having been done under the charter , the legislature , in 1846 ...
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Página 578 - Whatever subjects of this power are in their nature national, or admit only of one uniform system, or plan of regulation, may justly be said to be of such a nature as to require exclusive legislation by Congress.
Página 6 - Among the most important are immortality, and if the expression may be allowed, individuality; properties by which a perpetual succession of many persons are considered as the same, and may act as a single individual.
Página 581 - A telegraph company occupies the same relation to commerce as a carrier of messages, that a railroad company does as a carrier of goods.
Página 583 - Congress the regulation of commerce, it was never intended to cut the States off from legislating on all subjects relating to the health, life, and safety of their citizens, though the legislation might indirectly affect the commerce of the country. Legislation, in a great variety of ways, may affect commerce and persons engaged in it without constituting a regulation of it within the meaning of the Constitution.
Página 344 - Now, natural persons through the intervention of agents, are continually making contracts in countries in which they do not reside ; and where they are not personally present when the contract is made ; and nobody has ever doubted the validity of these agreements. And what greater objection can there be to the capacity of an artificial person, by its agents, to make a contract within the scope of its limited powers, in a sovereignty in which it does not reside ; provided such contracts are permitted...
Página 485 - That principle is that where a corporation, like a railroad company, has granted to it by charter a franchise intended in a large measure to be exercised for the public good, the due performance of those functions being the consideration of the public grant, any contract which disables the corporation from performing those functions — which undertakes, without the consent of the state, to transfer...
Página 304 - It is publicly pledged to those who deal with the corporation, for their security. Unpaid stock is as much a part of this pledge, and as much a part of the assets of the company, as the cash which has been paid in upon it.
Página 385 - ... when the question is one of a common or general interest of many persons, or when the parties are very numerous, and it may be impracticable to bring them all before the court, one or more may sue or defend for the benefit of the whole.
Página 511 - The doctrine of ultra vires, when invoked for or against a corporation, should not be allowed to prevail where it would defeat the ends of justice or work a legal wrong.
Página 583 - Until congress acts in reference to the relations of this company to interstate commerce, it is certainly within the power of Wisconsin to regulate its fares, etc., so far as they are of domestic concern.