 | United States. Supreme Court - 1852 - Страниц: 668
...grant of a franchise is of no higher order, and confers no more sacred title, than a grant of land to an individual ; and, when the public necessities...domain interfere with the inviolability of contracts. See West River Bridge Company v. Dix, 6 How. 507. Leaving, therefore, the question, as to the proper... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - Страниц: 774
...grant of a franchise is of no higher order, and confers no more sacred title, than a grant of land to an individual ; and, when the public necessities...compensation ; nor does such an exercise of the right of general domain interfere with the inviolability of contracts.* This important rule has been repeatedly... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1863 - Страниц: 76
...of the United States cannot be so construed as to take away the right from the States. Nor does the exercise of the right of eminent domain interfere with the inviolability of contracts. All property is held by tenure from the State, and all contracts are made subject to the right of eminent... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1870 - Страниц: 746
...grant of a franchise is of no higher order, and confers no more sacred title, than a grant of land to an individual; and, when the public necessities...other, may be taken for public purposes on making VOL. xix. 34 The Richmond, &c. Railroad Company v. The Louisa Railroad Co. 13 H. suitable compensation;... | |
 | 1873 - Страниц: 578
...grant of a franehise is of no higher order, and confers no more sacred title, than a grant of land to an individual ; and, when the public necessities...domain Interfere with the inviolability of contracts." r* The new Constitution of Illinois contains the following remarkable provisions, the force and effect... | |
 | Francis Fisher Broune - 1873 - Страниц: 544
...grant of a franchise is of no higher order, and confers no more sacred title, than a grant of land to an individual ; and, when the public necessities...of eminent domain interfere with the inviolability oi contracts." * , The new Constitution of Illinois contains the following remarkable provisions, the... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1874 - Страниц: 750
...grant of a franchise is of no higher order, and confers no more sacred title, than a grant of land to an individual ; and, when the public necessities...compensation ; nor does such an exercise of the right of general domain interfere with the inviolability of contracts.* This important rule has been repeatedly... | |
 | John Barbee Minor - 1876 - Страниц: 686
...grant of a franchise is of no higher order, and confers no more sacred title, than the grant of land to an individual; and when the public necessities...well as the other may be taken for public purposes, subject only to the condition of making just compensation^ as in ease of the appropriation by the public... | |
 | David Rorer - 1884 - Страниц: 882
...across the same, irrespective of the exclusive grant or corporate character of the franchise. They say: "The grant of a franchise is of no higher order, and...domain interfere with the inviolability of contracts."' Where the statute provides " that the company shall be holden to pay all damages that may arise to... | |
 | Sir Fortunatus Dwarris - 1885 - Страниц: 698
...right to a franchise, is of no higher order, and confers no more sacred title than the right to land, and when the public necessities require it, the one...suitable compensation ; nor does such an exercise of the rights of eminent domain, interfere with the inviolability of contracts, if such franchise happens... | |
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The grant of a franchise is of no higher order, and confers no more sacred title, than a grant of land to an individual ; and, when the public necessities require it, the one, as well as the other, may be taken for public purposes on making suitable compensation... 
