 | George Ticknor Curtis - 1854 - 674 ページ
...a right to insist, in the language of the court above quoted, '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.' The continued existence of a government would be of no great value, if, by implications and presumptions,... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - 1854 - 550 ページ
...right to insist, in the language of this Court, above quoted, ' 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/ n The opinion of the Chief-Justice, dismissing the bill, was concurred in by Judges Wayne, Baldwin,... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, United States. Supreme Court - 1864 - 772 ページ
...maintaining it undiminished, that community has a right to insist 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." Can it be admitted then, — can it be established by any correct reasoning, — that this high sovereign... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - 1860 - 698 ページ
...maintaining it undiminished, that community has a right to insist 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. The plaintiffs would give to this charter the same construction as if it contained a clause exempting the... | |
 | Richard Peters - 1860 - 836 ページ
...retaining it undiminished, that community has a right to insist 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. Ibid. 12. The power of legislation, and consequently of taxation, operate on all the persons and property... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1854 - 566 ページ
...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... | |
 | 1862 - 802 ページ
...retaining it undiminished, that community has a right to insist 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." It has always been considered by many of the members of the bar, that the Supreme Court, in their decision,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1863 - 76 ページ
...retaining it undiminished, that community has a right to insist 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. The great object of an incorporation is to bestow the character and properties of individuality on a collected... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1864 - 622 ページ
...Chenango Bridge Company agt. Binghamton Bridge Company. to insist 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." Judge BLACK, also, in the case of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. agt. Canal Commissioners (9 Harris,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1874 - 726 ページ
...interested in retaining it undiminished, and has "a right to insist 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."* If the point were not already adjudged it would admit of grave consideration, whether the legislature... | |
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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. 
