 | Maryland. Court of Appeals, Richard W. Gill, John Johnson, Richard Wordsworth Gill - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 560 pages
...franchises. That is of the essence of a public corporation." Again, in page 397 of the same book, it is said: "A public corporation is one that is created for political...to the control of the Legislature, and its members, and officers of the government for the administration or discharge of public duties, as in the cases... | |
 | Murray Hoffman - New York (N.Y.) - 1853 - 456 pages
...corporation. Thus all bank, bridge, turnpike, railroad and canal companies are private corporations." A public corporation is one that is created for political...good, in the administration of civil government." And in Britton vs. The Mayor of New York, before referred to, Chief Justice Nelson points out the extensive... | |
 | Law - 1874 - 844 pages
...protected from legislative power. Such public bodies are public corporations created by the legislature for political purposes, with political powers to be...public good in the administration of civil government. They are instruments of government subject at all times to the control of the legislature, with respect... | |
 | Law - 1878 - 560 pages
...vested rights protected from legislative power. Public corporations are created by the Legislature for political purposes, with political powers to be...exercised for purposes connected with the public good, subject at all times to the control of the Legislature with respect to their duration, powers and rights."... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 848 pages
..." The regents of the university " is a public or a private corporation; if at this day, that can bo considered an open question. A public corporation,...powers, to be exercised for purposes connected with tho public good in the administration of civil government; an instrument of the government subject... | |
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 676 pages
...incorporation contain provisions of a purely public char-\/ acter, introduced solely for the public good. * * * A public corporation is one that is created for political...officers of the government, for the administration aud discharge of public duties, as in the cases of cities, towns," etc. The court further says : "... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - Banks and banking - 1903 - 646 pages
...city, town, parish, or county." It is one that is created for a political purpose, with political power to be exercised for purposes connected with the public good in the administration of civil government. It is an instrument of the government subject to the control of the •Am. & Eng. Encyc. Law (2d Ed.).... | |
 | Howard Strickland Abbott - Corporation law - 1905 - 996 pages
...book20 defines a public corporation as "one that is created for a political purpose with political power to be exercised for purposes connected with the public good in the administration of civil government. It is an instrument of the government, subject to the control of the legislature, and its members are... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 1144 pages
...legislation, have no constitutional guaranty of trial by jury, and such trial may be denied them.' 'A public corporation is one that is created for political...officers of the government for the administration of the public good: Regents' Case, 9 Gill ft J. 3&V 397, 401, 31 Am. Dec. 72; and in the same case... | |
 | Howard Strickland Abbott - Corporation law - 1908 - 826 pages
...local government thereof." Again "one that is created for a political purpose with political power to be exercised for purposes connected with the public good in the administration of civil government. It is an instrument of the government, subject to the control of the legislature, and its members are... | |
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A public corporation is one that is created for political purposes, with political powers to be exercised for purposes connected with the public good in the administration of civil government... 
