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" ... a power reserved to the legislature to alter, amend or repeal a charter authorizes it to make any alteration or amendment of a charter granted subject to it, which will not defeat or substantially impair the object of the grant, or any rights vested... "
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Ohio - Page 82
by Ohio. Supreme Court - 1891
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A Manual of the Business Corporation Law of Massachusetts

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...
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The General Corporation Act of New Jersey

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...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 192

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1904 - 666 pages
...legislature to alter, amend or repeal a charter authorizes it to make any alteration or amendment of the charter granted, subject to it, which will not defeat...may deem necessary to secure either that object or any public right. The same principle was decided in Sinking Fund Cases, 99 US 700, 720; New York &c....
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 192

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1904 - 668 pages
...legislature to alter, amend or repeal a charter authorizes it to make any alteration or amendment of the charter granted, subject to it, which will not defeat...may deem necessary to secure either that object or any public right. The same principle was decided in Sinking Fund Cases, 99 US 700, 720; New York &c....
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The American Law Register, Volume 53

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...
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Lawyers' Reports Annotated, Book 47

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...
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Lawyers' Reports Annotated, Volume 23

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...
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A Hand-book of Corporation Law: As Applied to Private Business Corporations

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...
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Proceedings of the Public Service Commission for the First District, State ...

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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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 203

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1907 - 698 pages
...case that such power may be exercised to make any alteration or amendment in a charter granted that will not defeat or substantially impair the object of the grant or any rights which have vested under it, which the legislature may deem necessary to secure either the object of...
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