Annual Report of the Attorney General of the State of MichiganMichigan Attorney General, 1913 |
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Page 225 - It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those who apply the rule to particular cases, must of necessity expound and interpret that rule.
Page 224 - The question whether an Act repugnant to the Constitution can become the law of the land, is a question deeply interesting to the United States ; but, happily, not of an intricacy proportioned to its interest. It seems only necessary to recognize certain principles, supposed to have been long and well established, to decide it.
Page 496 - States for the proper district by the defendant or defendants therein being nonresidents of that state; and when in any suit mention210 211 ed in this section there shall be a controversy which is wholly between citizens of different states, and which can be fully determined as between them...
Page 154 - That whenever in any cause pending in any court of the United States there shall be a receiver or manager in possession of any property, such receiver or manager shall manage and operate such property according to the requirements of the valid laws of the state in which such property shall be situated, in the same manner that the owner or possessor thereof would be bound to do if in possession thereof.
Page 495 - Any other suit of a civil nature, at law or in equity, of which the district courts of the United States are given jurisdiction by...
Page 479 - Constitution, any city or village may acquire, own and operate, either within or without its corporate limits, public utilities for supplying water, light, heat, power and transportation to the municipality and the inhabitants thereof; and may also sell and deliver water, heat, power and light without its corporate limits to an amount not to exceed twenty-five per cent, of that furnished by it within the corporate limits; and may operate transportation lines without the municipality within such limits...
Page 551 - Under such general laws, the electors of each city and village shall have power and authority to frame, adopt and amend its charter...
Page 225 - The powers of the legislature are defined and limited ; and that those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the constitution is written.
Page 472 - An act to define and to regulate the Treatment and control of dependent, neglected and delinquent children...
Page 594 - Every law which imposes, continues or revives a tax, shall distinctly state the tax and the object to which it is to be applied ; and it shall not be sufficient to refer to any other law to fix such tax or object.