 But the object and end of all government is to promote the happiness and prosperity of the community by which it is established ; and it can never be assumed that the government intended to diminish its power of accomplishing the end for which it was...  The American Law Journal - Page 3691849Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1837 - 696 pages
...promote the happiness ad prosperity of the community by which it is established ; and it can never be assumed, that the government intended to diminish...numbers and wealth; new channels of communication are doily found necessary both for travelEMINENT DOMAIN. and trade ; and are essential tp tho comfort,... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - Riparian rights - 1847 - 492 pages
...happiness and prosperity of the community, by which it is established ; and that it could never bo assumed, that the government intended to diminish...end for which it was created ; and in a country like this, free, active, and enterprising, continually advancing in numbers and wealth, new channels of... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1851 - 680 pages
...promote the happiness and prosperity of the community by which it is established, and it can never be assumed that the government intended to diminish...of accomplishing the end for which it was created. A state ought never to be presumed to surrender this power, because, like the taxing power, the whole... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1854 - 650 pages
...must adapt themselves to the existing state of things, not arbitrarily, but by natural gradations. "In a country like ours, free, active, and enterprising,...comfort, convenience, and prosperity of the people." (11 Peters, 420, 547.) The public have the right "to avail themselves of the lights of modem science... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 804 pages
...Taney, speaking for the court, in Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge, 11 Pet. 420, 547: 'It can never be assumed that the government intended to diminish...of accomplishing the end for which it was created.' This is an elementary principle. In Chicago, etc., R. Co. v. Iowa, 94 US 155, Peik v. Railway Co.,... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1853 - 688 pages
...promote the happiness and prosperity of the community by which it is established; and it can never be assumed that the government intended to diminish...daily found necessary, both for travel and trade, and arc essential to the comfort, convenience, and prosperity of the people. A state ought never to be... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional law - 1854 - 674 pages
...promote the happiness and prosperity of the community by which it is established ; and it can never be assumed that the government intended to diminish...enterprising, continually advancing in numbers and wealth, new chanJustice Story, on the other hand, adopted the opposite rule of construction, and came to the opposite... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1856 - 614 pages
...itself to the public by greater capacity and greater speed. " In a country like ours," says Taney, CJ, " free, active, and enterprising, continually advancing...channels of communication are daily found necessary, and essential to the comfort and prosperity of the people." Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge,... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell, Thomas Durfee - Highway law - 1857 - 484 pages
...community by which it is established, and that it should never be assumed to be the intent of government to diminish its power of accomplishing the end for which it was created ; this was peculiarly so in this country, free, active and enterprising, and in which new channels... | |
 | Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 836 pages
...community by which it is established; and it can never be assumed that the government intended diminishing its power of accomplishing the end for which it was created ; and in a country like the United States, free, active, and enterprising, continually advancing in wealth and Charters. numbers,... | |
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