 The author cannot assent to the doctrine that, as respects public rights, municipal corporations are impliedly within ordinary limitation statutes. It is unsafe to recognize such a principle. But there is no danger in recognizing the principle of an estoppel...  The Law of Municipal Corporations - Page 635by John Forrest Dillon - 1873 - 988 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1875 - 674 pages
...justice requires that an equitable estoppel shall be asserted even against the public, but if so, such cases will form a law unto themselves, and do not...as respects public rights, municipal corporations arc within ordinary limitation statutes. It is unsafe to recognize such a principle. "But there is... | |
 | 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 - 1919 - 688 pages
...justice requires that an equitable estoppel shall be asserted even against the public, but if so, such cases will form a law unto themselves, and do not...respects public rights, municipal corporations are impliedly within ordinary limitation statutes. It is unsafe to recognize such a principle. But there... | |
 | West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1878 - 976 pages
...asserted even against the public ; but if so, such cases will form a law unto themselves, and do not tall within the legal operation of limitation enactments....that as respects public rights municipal corporations arc within ordinary limitation statutes. It is unsafe to recognize such a principle. But there is no... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1882 - 700 pages
...justice requires that an equitable estoppel shall be asserted even against the public, but if so, such cases will form a law unto themselves, and do not...legal operation of limitation enactments. The author can not assent to the doctrine that, as respects public rights, municipal corporations are within ordinary... | |
 | Franklin Hubbell Mackey, District of Columbia. Supreme Court - 1883 - 712 pages
...consequence, private rights of more persuasive force in the particular case than those of the public. * * * The author cannot assent to the doctrine that as respects...corporations are within ordinary limitation statutes." This distinction is in consonance with the decision in City of Alton vs. Illinois Transportation Co.,... | |
 | 1894 - 1156 pages
...justice requires that an equitable estoppel shall be asserted as against the public; but, If so, such cases will form a law unto themselves, and do not...corporations are within ordinary limitation statutes." In Wait's Actions and Defenses (volume 7, p. 234), the author says: "The privilege of the maxim, 'uullum... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (8th Circuit), George Washington McCrary - 1884 - 752 pages
...justice requires that an equitable estoppal shall be asserted, even against the public; but if so, such cases will form a law unto themselves, and do not...corporations are within ordinary limitation statutes. But there is no danger in recognizing the principle of an estoppel in pais, as applicable to such cases,... | |
 | 1906 - 1164 pages
...justice requires that an equitable estoppel shall be asserted even against the public, but if so, such cases will form a law unto themselves, and do not...within the legal operation of limitation enactments," and that "there is no danger in recognizing the principle of an estoppel in pais as applicable to exceptional... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1884 - 682 pages
...justice requires that an equitable estoppel shall be asserted even against the public, but if so, such cases will form a law unto themselves, and do not...within the legal operation of limitation enactments." It was further held, in said case, that " There can be no permanent rightful private possession of... | |
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