 Government on the property of the citizen and with the other to bestow It upon favored individuals to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes is none the less a robbery because it is done under the forms of law and is called taxation. This...  A Treatise on the Law of Private Corporations - Página 1047por Victor Morawetz - 1886 - 1173 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1875 - 438 páginas
...Mayor of Philadelphia, supra; {fanson v. Vernon, 27 Iowa, 47 ; Whiting « Fond du Lac, 25 Wls. 188. We have established, we think, beyond cavil, that there can be no lawful tax which ls not laid for a public purpose. It may not be easy to draw the line in all cases so as to decide... | |
 | 1890 - 980 páginas
...called taxation. This is not legislation ; it is a decree under legislative forms. . . . Beyond a cavil there can be no lawful tax which is not laid for a public purpose." I think it must be clear to every unprejudiced mind that the theory of Mr. McKinley, of "protection... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - 1879 - 1682 páginas
...up at the expense of the taxpayers. Justice Miller lays down the proposition, and demonstrates it, that there can be no lawful tax which is not laid for a public purpose. Interest had been paid on these bonds; but no importance was attached to that fact, since the payment... | |
 | 1881 - 446 páginas
...This is not legislation ; it is a decree under legislative forms. Nor is it taxation. Beyond a cavil there can be no lawful tax which is not laid for a public purpose. * * * If it be said that a benefit results to the local public of a town by establishing manufactures,... | |
 | John Joseph Lalor - 1883 - 1076 páginas
...This is not legislation; it is a decree under legislative forms. Nor is it taxation. Beyond a cavil there can be no lawful tax which is not laid for a...is a public purpose in this sense and what is not. But in the case before us, in which towns are authorized to contribute aid by way of taxation to any... | |
 | John Joseph Lalor - 1883 - 1076 páginas
...legislation; it is a decree under legislative forms. Nor is it taxation. Beyond a cavil there can t>e no lawful tax which is not laid for a public purpose."...is a public purpose in this sense and what is not. But in the case before us, in which towns are authorized to contribute aid by way of taxation to any... | |
 | Benjamin La Fevre - 1884 - 532 páginas
...This is not legislation ; it is a decree under legislative forms. Nor is it taxation. Beyond a cavil there can be no lawful tax which is not laid for a...is a public purpose in this sense and what is not. If it be said that a benefit results to the local public of a town, by establishing manufactures, the... | |
 | 1920 - 1148 páginas
...entire county of Churchill. It Is only In this view that the law can be vindicated, as it is fundamental that there can be no lawful tax which Is not laid for a public purpose, and that,' where county or municipal bonds are Issued whose payment Is provided for solely by taxation... | |
 | 1902 - 1178 páginas
...the United States in an Important case Is worthy of careful attention. That learned court declared that: "There can be no lawful tax which is not laid...to draw the line In all cases so as to decide what ¡sa public purpose In this sense and what is not. It Is undoubtedly the duty of the legislature, which... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1886 - 1100 páginas
...court. After consideration of the general nature of the power to tax, the court declare it to be " beyond cavil that there can be no lawful tax which is not laid for a public pwrpose. It may not be easy to draw the line in all cases so as to decide what is a public purpose... | |
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