| Charles Nathan Harris, Grosvenor Calkins - 1903 - 274 pages
...legislature the authority to make any alteration or amendment in a charter granted subject to it, that will not defeat or substantially impair the object of the grant, or any rights which have vested under it, and that the legislature may deem necessary to secure either that object... | |
| New Jersey - 1903 - 290 pages
...authority to make any alteration or amendment in a charter granted subject to this section, that will defeat or substantially impair the object of the grant, or any rights which have vested under it. (Zabriskie v. Hackensack &• NYR Co., 18 NJ Eq., 178.) The Legislature... | |
| 1905 - 836 pages
...dam, 70 that a power reserved to the legislature to alter, amend, or repe.?! a charter authorizes it to make any alteration or amendment of a charter granted...may deem necessary to secure either that object or any public right"—a complete ignoring of the real question lurking in the case. The latest decision... | |
| 1905 - 988 pages
...has authority to make any alteration or amendment in a charter granted subject to such reserved power which will not defeat or substantially impair the...the grant, or any rights vested under it, and which it may deem proper to secure either that object, or other public or private rights." The Supreme Court... | |
| 1905 - 1014 pages
...legislature the authority to make any alteration or amendment in a charter granted subject to it that will not defeat or substantially impair the object of the grant, or any rights which have vested under it, and that the legislature muy deem necessary to secure either that object... | |
| Richard Selden Harvey - 1906 - 602 pages
...legislative right to amend a charter, but intimates that such powers may be limited to enacting laws which will "not defeat or substantially impair the object of the grant, or any vested right." Looker vs. Maynard, 179 US, 46 (19oo). Corporations organized under a general law, and... | |
| New York (State). Public Service Commission. First District - 1917 - 1292 pages
...the surface. The 'power reserved to the legislature to alter, amend or repeal a charter authorizes it to make any alteration or amendment of a charter granted...may deem necessary to secure either that object or any public right.' (Close v. Glcmvood Cemetery) (107 US 466, 476). Under this doctrine the Supreme... | |
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