The Origin of Municipal Incorporation in England and in the United StatesReprinted from the Proceedings of the American Bar Association at Saratoga Springs, New York, 1902 - Municipal corporations - 81 pages |
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Page 67 - I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.
Page 70 - I grant you to be all law-worthy as you were in the days of King Edward ; and I grant that every child shall be his father's heir, after his father's days ; and I will not suffer any person to do you wrong. God keep you.
Page 48 - And it appears in our books, that in many cases, the common law will control acts of parliament, and sometimes adjudge them to be utterly void; for when an act of parliament is against common right and reason, or repugnant, or impossible to be performed, the common law will control it, and adjudge such act to be void; and therefore in 8 E.
Page 81 - If a statistical table of legal propositions should be drawn out, and the first column headed : " Law by Statute," and the second: " Law by Decision," a third column under the heading of " Law taken for granted," would comprise as much matter as both the others combined.
Page 45 - Towns in Connecticut, as in the other New England States, differ from trading companies, and even from municipal corporations elsewhere. They are territorial corporations, into which the State is divided by the legislature, from time to time, at its discretion, for political purposes and the convenient administration of government ; they have those powers only, which have been expressly conferred upon them by statute, or which are necessary for conducting municipal affairs ; and all the inhabitants...
Page 68 - In the name of God Amen the eight and twentieth day of February in the nineteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith &c.
Page 2 - The state may mould local institutions according to its views of policy or expediency ; but local government is matter of absolute right ; and the state cannot take it away. It would be the boldest mockery to speak of a city as possessing municipal liberty where the state not only shaped its government, but at. discretion sent in its own agents to administer it ; or to call that system one of constitutional freedom under which it...
Page 5 - ... clothe him; he makes his own living by cultivating his villein tenement, or, in case he is but a cottager, by earning wages at the hand of his wealthier neighbours. In the fourth place, he is seldom severed from his tenement; he is seldom sold as a chattel, though this happens now and again; he passes from feoffor to feoffee, from ancestor to heir as annexed to the soil.
Page 5 - burh ' of the Anglo-Saxon period was simply a more strictly organised form of the township*. It was probably in a more defensible position ; had a ditch and mound instead of the quickset hedge or 'tun...