 | 1894 - 992 էջ
...contract which is beyond the scope of its powers. The opposite doctrine would be fraught with much danger, and accompanied with such abuse that It would...of municipalities, or be legislatively overthrown." The power of taxation is a part of sovereign authority. Declarations in the attempt to repeal ordinances... | |
 | 1894 - 1208 էջ
...Peunie, 108 NY 373, 15 NB (HI. "The duties and powers of officers of a public corporation or Its agents are prescribed by statute or charter, which all persons not only may know, but are bound to know." 1 Dill. Mun. Corp. § 457. In State v. Little Rock, MR & T. Ry. Co., 31 Ark. 720, this court say: "Judge... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - 1894 - 876 էջ
...contract which is beyond the scope of its powers. The opposite doctrine would be fraught with much danger and accompanied with such abuse that it would...of municipalities or be legislatively overthrown." The power of taxation is a part of sovereign authority. Declarations in the attempt to repeal ordinances... | |
 | Québec (Province). Superior Court - 1902 - 606 էջ
...officers are but " the public agents of the corporation. The duties and " powers of the officers or public agents of the corporation are " prescribed...persons not only " may know, but are bound to know the corporation " is bound only when its agents or officers, by whom it can " alone act, keep within the... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1902 - 1026 էջ
...duties and powers of the officers »r public agents of the corporation are prescribed by statute »r charter, -which all persons not only may know, but...know. The opposite doctrine would be fraught with such ianger and accompanied with such abuse that it would soon end in the ruin of municipalities, or be... | |
 | 1904 - 1330 էջ
...The officers are but the public agents of the corporation. The duties and powers of the officers or public agents of the corporation are prescribed by...of municipalities, or be legislatively overthrown. < • • It results from this doctrine that contracts not authorized by the charter or by other legislative... | |
 | J. C. Wells, Edward Warren Hines, Frank L. Wells, Horace C. Brannin, William Cromwell, William Jefferson Chinn, Walter G. Chapman, William Pope Duvall Bush, Finlay Ferguson Bush, R. G. Higdon, Thomas Robert.. McBeath - 1904 - 1272 էջ
...the officers are but the public agents of the corporation. The duties and powers of the officers or public agents of the corporation are prescribed by...of municipalities, or be legislatively overthrown. * * * It results from this doctrine that contracts not authorized by the charter or by other legislative... | |
 | Thomas Johnson Michie - 1907 - 932 էջ
...corporators— the officers are but the public agents of the corporation. The autle> and powers of such officers are prescribed by statute or charter which all persons not only may know but are bound to know. These considerations vindicate the reasonableness and. necessity of the rule that the corporation is... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - 1911 - 802 էջ
...the officers are but the public agents of the corporation.1 The duties and powers of the officers or public agents of the corporation are prescribed by...would soon end in the ruin of municipalities, or be legislativelv overthrown. These considerations vindicate both the reasonableness and necessity of the... | |
 | 1885 - 592 էջ
...the officers are but the public agents of the corporation. The duties and powers of the officers or public agents of the corporation are prescribed by statute or charter, which all persons not only know, but are bound to know." Dillon, Munie. Corp., 3d Ed., § 457. "A municipal corporation has at... | |
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The duties and powers of the officers or Nashville ?'. Sutherland & Co. public agents of the corporation are prescribed by statute or charter, which all persons not only may know, but are bound to know. The opposite doctrine would be fraught with such... 
