| Puerto Rico. Supreme Court - 1916 - 958 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.' 'We must look for the exemption in the language of the instrument ; and if we do not find it there,... | |
| Hannis Taylor - 1917 - 1038 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." Unless its intention to do so has been declared in positive and unmistakable terms, the legislature... | |
| Henry Clifford Spurr, Ellsworth Nichols - 1917 - 1278 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." In the case of Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge, 11 Pet. 420, 547, 9 L. ed. 773, 824, the same... | |
| Colorado. Supreme Court - 1918 - 656 ページ
...514, 561, 7 L. Ed. 939, 238 DENVER Co. v. ENGLEWOOD. [62 Colo. 955, ' Its abandonment ought not to be presumed in a case in which the deliberate purpose of the state to abandon it does not appear.' " In the well considered case of Benwood v. Public Service Commission, 75 W. Va. 127, 83 SE 295, and... | |
| William Meade Fletcher - 1919 - 1316 ページ
...Chief Justice Marshall in Providence Bank v. Billings, 4 Pet. 514, 561 'its abandonment ought not to be presumed in a case in which the deliberate purpose of the State to abandon it does not appear.' " 51 For instance, a general power given to a corporation by its charter to fix or establish rates... | |
| 1920 - 1164 ページ
...in Providence Bank v. Billings, 4 Pet. 514, 561, 7 L. ed. 939, 955, 'Its abandonment ought not to be presumed in a case in which the deliberate purpose of the state to abandon it does not appear.' " Upon this point it was said in Interstate Commerce Com. v. Railway Co. 167 US 479, 17 Sup. Ct. 896,... | |
| Frederick Dumont Smith - 1926 - 598 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.' " 224 He comes then to consider the most potent argument against these special privileges, so strongly... | |
| 1877 - 658 ページ
...undiminished, and has a right to insist that its adandonment shall not be presumed in any case where the deliberate purpose of the state to abandon it does not appear. Providence Bank v. Billings, 4 Peters, 561; The Delaware Bailroad Tas, 18 Wall., 226. Here no such... | |
| Eugene McQuillin - 1928 - 1036 ページ
...power." Railroad Com. Cases, 116 US 307, 6 Sup. Ct. 334, 29 L. Ed. 631. "Its abandonment ought not to be presumed in a case in which the deliberate purpose of the state to abandon it does not appear." Providence v. Billings, 4 Pet. (US) 514, 561, 7 L. Ed. 939, per Chief Justice Marshall. This rule is... | |
| 1928 - 1244 ページ
...council have surrendered Its power of improvement and public accommodation, abandonment ought not to be presumed in a case in which the deliberate purpose of the state or council do not appear. Charles River Bridge Co. v. Warren Bridge (11 Pet. 36 US) 420, 9 L. Ed. 773;... | |
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