... different trades and professions, and may vary the rates of excise upon various products ; it may tax real estate and personal property in a different manner; it may tax visible property only, and not tax securities for payment of money ; it may allow... The Supreme Court Reporter - Page 2571897Full view - About this book
| Henry Clifford Spurr - 1922 - 720 pages
...concerned.' It is also said in the same case that the rule— 'is not without limitation, of course. "Clear and hostile discriminations against particular persons and classes, especially such as are of unusual character, unknown to the practice of our governments, might be obnoxious to the constitutional... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1924 - 732 pages
...within reasonable limits and general usage, are within the discretion of the State legislature, or of the people of the State in framing their Constitution. But clear and hostile discriminations 22 Syllabus. against particular persons and classes, especially such as are of an unusual character,... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1925 - 1420 pages
...tax securities for payment of money; it may allow deductions for indebtedness, or not allow them. All such regulations, and those of like character, so...framing their Constitution. But clear and hostile discrimination [29] against particular persons and classes, especially such as are of an unusual character,... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1926 - 1260 pages
...tax securities for payment of money; it may allow deductions for indebtedness, or not allow them. All against[107] particular persons and classes, especially such as are of an unusual character, un18Ü1.... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1926 - 810 pages
...securities for payment of money ; it may allow deductions for indebtedness, or not allow them. . All such regulations, and those of like character, so...people of the State in framing their Constitution." Bell's Gap RR v. Pennsylvania, 134 US 232, at p. 237. It is not necessary that the basis of classification... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1926 - 1256 pages
...94-1)7 such regulations, and those of like character, so hing as they proceed within reasonable limite and general usage, are within the discretion of the...legislature or the people of the state in framing their Constitu(95J tion." See also Borne 4ns. Co. v. New York, 134 US 594, 33 L. ed. 1025, 10 Sup. Ct. Rep.... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1926 - 892 pages
...when this court, after declaring that a state legislature in the matter of taxation may impose "all such regulations, and those of like character, so...they proceed within reasonable limits and general usages," held that it could not "make hostile discriminations against particular persone and classes,... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1926 - 894 pages
...when this court, after declaring that a state legislature in the matter of taxation mny impose "all such regulations, and those of like character, so...they proceed within reasonable limits and general usages," held that it could not "make hostile discriminations against particular persons and classes,... | |
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