 | Massachusetts. Attorney General's Office - 1915 - 396 pages
...Legislature the authority to make any alteration or amendment in a charter granted subject to it, that will not defeat or substantially impair the object...the grant, or any rights which have vested under it, and that the Legislature may deem necessary to secure either that object or other public or private... | |
 | 1883 - 552 pages
...charter authorizes it to make any alteration or amendment of a charter granted subject to it, which will not defeat or substantially impair the object of the grant' or any rights vested under it, and which the Legislature may deem necessary to secure either that object or any public... | |
 | 1883 - 548 pages
...charter authorizes it to make any alteration or amendment of a charter granted subject to it, which will not defeat or substantially impair the object of the grant' or any rights vested under it, aud which the Legislature may deem necessary to secure either that object or any public... | |
 | 1894 - 922 pages
...charter authorizes it to make any alteration or amendment of a charter granted subject to it, which will not defeat or substantially impair the object of the grant, or any right vested under it, and which the Legislature may deem necessary to secure either that object or... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1872 - 676 pages
...legislature the authority t» make any alteration or amendment of a charter granted subject to it, which will not defeat or substantially impair the object of the grant or any rights vested under it, and which the legislature may deem necessary to secure either that object or other... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1873 - 740 pages
...legislature the authority to make any alteration or amendment in a charter granted, subject to it, that will not defeat or substantially impair the object...right not expressly granted away by the charter.^ Such a charter may doubtless be granted to build a dam across a river whose whole course is within... | |
 | Wisconsin. Railroad Commissioners' Department - 1875 - 856 pages
...held that the law does not reserve to the legislature authority to so alter or amend a charter as to defeat or substantially impair the object of the grant, or any rights which have vested under it. The same principle is recognized in Kentucky: "A reservation in a legislative charter of the power... | |
 | Wisconsin. Railroad Commissioners' Department - 1875 - 858 pages
...any alteration or amendment in a charter granted subject to it, that will not defeat or substantial}- impair the object of the grant, or any rights which...right not expressly granted away by the charter." In Miller rs. The State, 15 Wallace 498, this court, through Mr. Justice Clifford, expresses itself... | |
 | Wisconsin - 1876 - 1184 pages
...held that the law does not reserve to the legislature authority to so alter or amend a charter as to defeat or substantially impair the object of the grant, or any rights which have vested under it. The same principle is recognized in Kentucky: "A reservation in a legislative charter of the power... | |
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... a power reserved to the legislature to alter, amend or repeal a charter authorizes it to make any alteration or amendment of a charter granted subject to it, which will not defeat or substantially impair the object of the grant, or any rights vested... 
