 | Victor Morawetz - Corporation law - 1886 - 642 pages
...to others the rights and powers conferred by the charter, and to relieve the grantees of the burden which it imposes, is a violation of the contract with...the State, and is void as against public policy." 8 structed without any process recog- '-' State v. Sioux City, &o. RK nized by law." Co., 7 Neb. 357,... | |
 | Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 612 pages
...to others the rights and powers conferred by the charter, and to relieve the grantees of the burden which it imposes, is a violation of the contract with the State, and is void as against public poliov." (Thomas v. RR 101 US 83.) The authorities cited in 45 Mich, do not sustain the proposition... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1166 pages
...rights and powers conferred by the charter, and to relieve the grantee of the burden which the charter imposes, is a violation of the contract with the state, and is void as against public policy.' " This is undoubtedly the law by all the authorities. The rule and the reason for It make the duty... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1208 pages
...to others the rights and powers conferred by the charter, and to relieve the grantees of the burden which it imposes, is a violation of the contract with...the state, and Is void as against public policy." See, also, Railway Co. v. Morris, 67 Tex. 6119, 4 SW 150. We do not doubt the power of the defendant... | |
 | New Hampshire. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 702 pages
...powers conferred by the charter, and to relieve the grantees of the burden which it imposes, is in violation of the contract with the state, and is void as against public policy." The transfer, delegation of authority, and alienation of the entire control of the Concord Railroad... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 860 pages
...to others the rights and powers conferred by the charter, and to relieve the grantees of the burden which it imposes, is a violation of the contract with...the State, and is void as against public policy." 101 US 83. It was also held in that case that the lease was not made valid by a subsequent act of the... | |
 | Charles Fisk Beach (Jr.) - Corporation law - 1891 - 834 pages
...consideration of the public grant, any contract which disables the corporation from performing those functions is a violation of the contract with the State and is void as against public policy.2 As opposed to this statement of the ground of the rule against consolidation, there is much... | |
 | Charles Andrew Ray - Antitrust law - 1892 - 580 pages
...to others the rights and powers conferred by the charter, and to relieve the grantees of the burden which it imposes, is a violation of the contract with...the State, and is void as against public policy." But as neither human sympathy, moral principle, personal reputation, nor the fear of punishment have... | |
 | Railroad law - 1893 - 580 pages
...and powers conferred by the charter and to relieve the grantees of the burden which it imposes, is in violation of the contract with the state and is void as against public policy." But wherein the principle announced in this case can be applied to the contract under consideration,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1894 - 826 pages
...to others the rights and powers conferred by the charter and to relieve the grantees of the burden which it imposes — is a violation of the contract...with the state, and is void as against public policy. Proceeding to apply the principle here enunciated to the present case, Judge McCrary said : " It is... | |
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... functions being the consideration of the public grant, any contract which disables the corporation from performing those functions, which undertakes, without the consent of the State, to transfer to others the rights and powers conferred by the charter,... 
