 | 1906 - 1286 pages
...the i-urporatioii. not simply convenient, but indispensable. ... Of every municipal ••orporation the charter or statute by which it is created is its...contract, or incur any liability, not authorized thereby." The powers and duties of counties and county lioarde are declared and found in SI 22-26 chap. 34, Ilurd's... | |
 | Illinois. Appellate Court, Martin L. Newell, Mason Harder Newell, Walter Clyde Jones, Keene Harwood Addington, James Christopher Cahill, Basil Jones, James Max Henderson, Ray Smith - 1906 - 728 pages
...or statute by which a municipal corporation is created is its organic act. The corporation can do no act or make any contract or incur any liability not...thereby, or by some legislative act applicable thereto. The corporation exists as a city solely and alone by the authority of its act of incorporation, and... | |
 | Chicago (Ill.) - 1906 - 432 pages
...resolved by the courts against the corporation and the power is denied. Of every municipal corporation the charter or statute by which it is created is its organic act. Neither the corporation or its officers can do any act, or make any contract, or incur any liability, not authorized thereby,... | |
 | Joseph Asbury Joyce, Howard Clifford Joyce - 1907 - 1014 pages
...resolved by the courts against the corporation and the power is denied. Of every municipal corporation, the charter or statute by which it is created is its...Neither the corporation nor its officers can do any act, make any contract, incur any liabilities not authorized thereby, or by some legislative act applicable... | |
 | Thomas Johnson Michie - 1907 - 932 pages
...30 W. Va. 424, 4 SE 640. VI. Municipal Charters. A. AN ORGANIC ACT. Of every municipal corporation the charter or statute by which it is created is its organic act. Neither the cerporation nor its officers can do any act, or make any contract, or incur any liability, not authorized... | |
 | Harry Erwin Bard - 1909 - 134 pages
...municipal functions. In their discharge of these functions the cities are recognized by law as mere state the charter or statute by which it is created is its...beyond the scope of the powers granted are void." — Dillon, Municipal Corporation, 4th edition, p. 1.4.5.. •• • • > '• ~ * agents subject... | |
 | Harry Erwin Bard - 1909 - 128 pages
...municipal functions. In their discharge of these functions the cities are recognized by law as mere state the charter or statute by which it is created is its...All acts beyond the scope of the powers granted are void;"—Dillon, Municipal Corporation, 4th edition, p. 145. agents subject to the continual supervision... | |
 | Harry Erwin Bard - 1909 - 128 pages
...municipal functions. In their discharge of these functions the cities are recognized by law as mere state the charter or statute by which it is created is its...officers can do any act, or make any contract, or incur1 any liability, not authorized thereby, or by some legislative act applicable thereto. All acts... | |
 | 1909 - 1164 pages
...declared objects and purposes of the corporation, not simply convenient, but indispensable. * * » Neither the corporation nor its officers can do any...or incur any liability, not authorized thereby or some legislative act applicable thereto. All acts beyond the scope of the powers granted are void."... | |
 | James Parker Hall, James De Witt Andrews - 1910 - 412 pages
...resolved by the courts against the corporation, and the power is denied. Of every municipal corporation the charter or statute by which it is created is its...acts beyond the scope of the powers granted are void" (1). It is remarkable with what unanimity the courts have adopted this statement and acted upon (1)... | |
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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... 
