 Of every municipal corporation the charter or statute by which it is created is its organic act. Neither the corporation nor its officers can do any act, or make any contract, or incur any liability, not authorized thereby, or by some legislative act...  The Workmen's Compensation Law Journal - Page 411by United States - 1921Full view - About this book
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1888 - 946 pages
...the complainants excepted. HOWARD EW PALMER ; HARRISON & PJEKPLES, for plaintiffs in error, cited: All acts beyond the scope of the powers granted are void: 1 Dill. Mun. Cor. (3d ed.), §§89, 91, 96. Conditions precedent must be strictly complied with before... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1900 - 840 pages
...power is denied. Of every municipal corporation, the charter or statute by which it is created is its organic act. Neither the corporation nor its officers...contract, or incur any liability not authorized thereby. * * * All acts beyond the scope of the powers granted are void." 1 Dill. Mun. Corp. (4th Ed.) § 89.... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - 1873 - 546 pages
...every municipal corporation the charter or statute by which it is created is its organic act. Nbither the corporation, nor its officers, can do any act,...contract, or incur any liability, not authorized thereby. All acts beyond the scope of the powers granted are void. Much less can any power be exercised, or... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frderick C. Seibold - 1876 - 762 pages
...incidental powers as are necessary to carry into effect express grants, are the limit to their authority. Neither the corporation nor its officers can do any...act, or make any contract, or incur any liability binding the municipality, which is not authorized by such power. Dillon on Mun. Corp., § 55. Nor can... | |
 | Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - 1884 - 550 pages
...and the power is denied. Of every municipality, the charter or statute by which it is created is its organic act. Neither the corporation nor its officers can do any act, nor make any contract, nor incur any liability, not authorized thereby. All acts beyond the scope of... | |
 | 1916 - 1240 pages
...or statute by which it is created is its organic act Neither the corporation nor its officers can dp any act, or make any contract, or incur any liability,...beyond the scope of the powers granted are void." 1 Dillon, Mun. Corp. (5th Ed.) § 237. The rule as thus stated has been approved and applied by this... | |
 | 1884 - 1006 pages
...and the power is denied. Of every municipality the charter or statute by which it is created is its organic act. Neither the corporation nor its officers can do any act, nor make any contract, nor incur any liability, not authorized thereby. All acts beyond the scope of... | |
 | 1884 - 948 pages
...and the power is denied. Of every municipality the charter or statute by which it is created is its organic act. Neither the corporation nor its officers can do any act. nor make any contract, nor incur any liability, not authorized thereby. All acts beyond the scope of... | |
 | 1901 - 1134 pages
...created, Is its organic act; and the corporation cannot do any act not authorized by such charter, or by some legislative act applicable thereto. "All...beyond the scope of the powers granted are void." 1 Dill. Mun. Corp. (4th Ed.) p. 146, § 89. Surely, in not prescribing the amount to be paid as a license... | |
 | 1921 - 1162 pages
...power is denied. Of every municipal corporation the charter or statute by which it is created is Its organic act. Neither the corporation nor its officers...beyond the scope of the powers granted are void." [1,2] A search for authority conferred by the Legislature does not reveal any enactment granting power,... | |
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