 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell, Samuel Ames - 1846 - 872 pages
...the corporations have no private estate or interest in the grant. If the powers conferred be granted for public purposes exclusively, they belong to the corporate body, in its public and numicipal character; but if for purposes of private advantage and emolument, though the public... | |
 | 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 - 1909 - 790 pages
...Chief Justice Nelson, in Bailey v. Mayor, etc., of New York, 3 Hill (NY), 539, as follows: " If granted for public purposes exclusively, they belong to the...political or municipal character; but if the grant was for purposes of private advantage and emolument, though the public may derive a common benefit therefrom,... | |
 | 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 - 1874 - 664 pages
...separating them, regard must be had to the object of the legislature in conferring them. If granted for public purposes exclusively, they belong to the...corporate body in its public, political or municipal BOARD or PABK Con M i»»i ONHRS r. COHHOIC COUNCIL or DITROIT. character. But if the grant was for... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - 1855 - 710 pages
...various powers conferred, as the object and purpose of the Legislature in conferring them. If granted for public purposes, exclusively, they belong to the corporate body in its public or municipal character. But if for purposes of private advantage, though the public may derive a common... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1920 - 684 pages
...public and private, regard must be had to the, object of the legislature in conferring them. If granted for public purposes exclusively they belong to the corporate body in its public, polftical or municipal character; but if the grant was for purposes of private advantages and emolument,... | |
 | Murray Hoffman - 1862 - 486 pages
...private property of the city — as much so as the lands and houses within it. If powers are granted for public purposes exclusively, they belong to the...municipal character. But if the grant was for the purposes of private advantage and emolument, though the public may derive a common benefit therefrom,... | |
 | Murray Hoffman - 1862 - 474 pages
...corporate body, in its public, political, or municipal character. But if the grant was for the purposes of private advantage and emolument, though the public...a common benefit therefrom, the Corporation, quoad hoc, is to be regarded as a private company. It stands on the same footing as would any individual,... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1868 - 776 pages
...various powers conferred, as to the object and purpose of the legislature in conferring them. If granted for public purposes exclusively, they belong to the...political, or municipal character. But if the grant was for purposes of private advantage and emolument, though the public may derive a common benefit therefrom,... | |
 | 1892 - 554 pages
...various powers conferred as to the object and purpose of the Legislature in conferring them. If granted for public purposes exclusively, they belong to the corporate body in its public, political character. But if the grant was for purposes of private advantage and emolument, though the public... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1874 - 914 pages
...various powers conferred, as to the object and purpose of the legislature in conferring them. If granted for public purposes exclusively, they belong to the...or municipal character. But, if the grant was for purposes of private advantage and emolument, though the public may derive a common benefit therefrom,... | |
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If granted for public purposes exclusively, they belong to the corporate body in its public, political, or municipal character. But if the grant was for purposes of private advantage and emolument, though the public may derive a common benefit therefrom,... 
