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Meriwether Vs. Garrett

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jan 01, 1880

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  1. Girard Vs. Philadelphia US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1868
  2. Batesville Institute Vs. Kauffman US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1873
  3. U.S. 472 (1880) U.S. Supreme Court Meriwether v. Garrett
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  4. U.S. 472 (1880) Meriwether v. Garrett
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  5. is no such thing as a vested right held by any individual in the grant of legislative power to them. United States v. Railroad
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  6. Commissioners v. Lucas
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  7. People v. Morris
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  8. Philadelphia v. Fox
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  9. Montpelier v. East
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  10. before those who succeed to his rights can share in its distribution. The language used by us in the case of Broughton v. Pensacola
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  11. Schaffer v. Cadwallader
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  12. City of Davenport v. Peoria
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  13. Askins v. Commonwealth
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  14. payment of the creditors of the corporation. Taxes are not debts. It was so held by this Court in the case of Oregon v. Lane
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  15. of debt may be instituted for their recovery. The form of procedure cannot change their character. City of Augusta v. North
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  16. City of Camden v. Allen
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  17. Perry v. Washburn
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  18. to obey existing law. In neither case are the taxes liens upon property unless made so by statute. Philadelphia v. Greble
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  19. Howell v. Philadelphia
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  20. not new in this Court. It has been repeatedly asserted, after the most mature consideration. It was asserted in Ress v. City
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  21. U. S. 19 Wall. 107, 86 U. S. 116 . In the case of Heine v. The
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  22. of their own, the federal courts cannot by reason of it take any additional powers which are not judicial. In Rees v. City
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  23. courts of equity, at least the circuit courts of the United States, cannot by their own officers levy a tax. Rees v. City
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  24. duties, it may be admitted, the legislature has plenary authority. Over its private obligations it has not. Bailey v. Page
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  25. Small v. The
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  26. Oliver v. Worcester
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  27. And this rule is applicable to cases in which a municipal corporation has been nominated the trustee. Girard v. Philadelphia
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  28. So in Batesville Institute v. Kauffman
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  29. In Broughton v. Pensacola
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  30. So in Curran v. Arkansas
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  31. Maenhout v. New
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  32. In Beckwith v. Racine
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  33. of being diverted to other uses by the legislation of the state. This law has again and again been declared. Grogan v. San
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  34. Board of Park Commissioners v. Common
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  35. City of Dubuque v. Ill
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  36. do not contend that a court of equity can itself levy a tax. I agree it cannot, and so this Court has decided. Rees v. City
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  37. or, when it is a lien, by a bill of equity. Such certainly is the law of Tennessee. Mayor & Aldermen of Jonesboro v. McKee
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  38. Rutledge v. Fogg
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  39. Marr v. The
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  40. of West Tennessee, 4 id. 487. The imposition of a tax, creates a legal obligation to pay. In Savings Bank v. United
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  41. Von Hoffman v. City
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  42. U.S. Supreme Court Meriwether v. Garrett
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  43. United States v. Railroad
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  44. of Broughton v. Pensacola
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  45. of Oregon v. Lane
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  46. City of Augusta v. North
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  47. Philadelphia v. Greble
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  48. Ress v. City
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  49. of Heine v. The
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  50. In Rees v. City
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