 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - 1833 - 812 páginas
...the power of the legislature "to declare what shall be a reasonable compensation for such services, or, perhaps more properly speaking, to fix a maximum...beyond which any charge made would be unreasonable," the chief justice said : " To limit the rate of charges for services rendered in a public employment,... | |
 | 1921 - 510 páginas
...Granger Cases looked to judicial history, and expressly limited the right to legislate in saying : "In countries where the common law prevails it has...to declare what shall be a reasonable compensation * * * (for property clothed with a public use). Undoubtedly in mere private contracts relating to matters... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1877 - 526 páginas
...reasonable is a judicial and not a legislative question. As has already been thown, the practice has been otherwise. In countries where the common law prevails...circumstances; or, perhaps more properly speaking, to tix a maximum beyond which any charge made would be unreasonable. Undoubtedly in mere private contracts... | |
 | Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of California - 1882 - 664 páginas
...it is the duty of the Courts to set it aside. Justice Waite, in the celebrated Granger Cases, says: "In countries where the common law prevails, it has...beyond which any charge made would be unreasonable." [The italics are ours.] Now, the second clause of the above paragraph materially modifies the first;... | |
 | David Rorer - 1884 - 996 páginas
...reasonable is a judicial and not a legislative question. As has already been shown, the practice has been otherwise. In countries where the common law prevails,...speaking, to fix a maximum beyond which any charge njade would be unreasonable. Undoubtedly, in mere private contracts, relating to matters in which the... | |
 | Nebraska. Supreme Court, David Allen Campbell, Guy Ashton Brown, Lorenzo Crounse, Walter Alber Leese, Lee Herdmen, Henry Clay Lindsay, Henry Paxon Stoddart - 1885 - 760 páginas
...a public interest, and that what is reasonable is a judicial and not a legislative question. As has already been shown, the practice is otherwise. In...matters in which the public has no interest, what State v. RVRR Co. is reasonable must be ascertained judicially. But this is because the legislature... | |
 | 1907 - 1210 páginas
...charged for commodities or services by individuals or corporations subject to governmental regulation. "It has been customary from time immemorial for the...beyond which any charge made would be unreasonable." Munn v. Illinois, 94 U. S. 113, 24 L. Ed. 77. "Whenever there is a general right on the part of the... | |
 | 1889 - 176 páginas
...held that " when private property is devoted to a public use it is subject to public regulation : " " In countries where the common law prevails it has...reasonable compensation under such circumstances, or, more properly speaking, to fix a maximum beyond which any charge made would be unreasonable." On the... | |
 | Iowa State Commerce Commission - 1889 - 1144 páginas
...held that "when private property is devote.d to a public use, it is subject to public regulation." "In countries where the common law prevails it has...reasonable compensation, under such circumstances, or more properly speaking, to fix a maximum beyond which any charge made would be unreasonable." On the... | |
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In countries where the common law prevails, it has been customary from time immemorial for the legislature to declare what shall be a reasonable compensation under such circumstances, or, perhaps more properly speaking, to fix a maximum beyond which any... 
