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Stearns Vs. Minnesota

Court : US Supreme Court

..... the whole amount of the stipulated payment of the gross receipt tax in the same manner as theretofore, that is, by the contract. that is to say, the amendatory act preserves the contract in favor of the state as an entirety, by retaining the obligations due by the railroad to the state, and yet purports to repeal, alter, or ..... the other contracting party, is not to repeal, alter or amend the contract at all, but, whilst preserving it, to endeavor by an act of arbitrary power to impose a burden incompatible with the very provisions and terms of the amendatory act itself. as has been previously said, the consideration of the contract obligation of the corporation to pay the ..... to pay the whole of the stipulated rent, a condition strictly analogous to that which arises from the amending act relied on in the case at bar would be presented. my understanding does not permit me to doubt that to preserve in this case the contract in its entirety, so far as the rights of the state are concerned, .....

Mahamahopadyaya Ranga Chariar Vs. the Municipal Council

Court : Chennai

Reported in : (1906)16MLJ582

..... as to the first question, by the notification of the government, dated the 29th august 1905, issued under section 4b(1)(b) of the district municipalities act (madras act iv of 1884), the municipal council of kumbakonam then existing was superseded for a period of seven months till the 31st march 1906. subsequently councillors were appointed ..... corporate character is predicated, the corporation cannot be taken to subsist when that group has been completely broken up and that the provisions of the district municipalities act relating to supersesion are only consistent with this view. the difficulty of formulating a theory as to the true nature of a corporation that would satisfy ..... the suit, in so far as the prayer for injunction is concerned, is unsustainable for want of notice under section 261(1) of the madras district municipalities act; and3. whether the appellant was disentitled to raise the ridge put up by him on his own land adjoining the highway vested in the municipal council, for .....

Ex Parte Young

Court : US Supreme Court

..... attorney general might institute, conduct, and maintain all suits and proceedings he might deem necessary for the enforcement of the laws of the state, the preservation of order, and the protection of public rights, and that there were no statutory restrictions in that state limiting the duties of the attorney general in ..... from taking any action, step, or proceeding against the railway company, its officers, agents, or employees, to enforce the penalties and remedies specified in those acts. the court gave a temporary injunction as prayed for. the attorney general of minnesota appeared specially, and, without submitting to or acknowledging the jurisdiction of the ..... attorneys of the various judicial circuits of arkansas from instituting any proceeding for penalties for its failure or refusal to comply with the provisions of an act of the legislature of arkansas relating to foreign corporations doing business in that state and fixing fees, etc. the bill charged that the various prosecuting .....

Sir Dinshaw Manockji Petit and ors. Vs. Sir Jamsetji Jeejeebhoy and or ...

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : 2Ind.Cas.701

..... allowed to live in peace and profess their ancient faith. in such circumstances, the idea of proselytising was impolitic and impracticable. they had enough to do to preserve their own faith, their own little society, against the impact of great surrounding forces, which, if not actively hostile, were not altogether sympathetic, religious and ..... this, it was necessary that we should have before us all such documents as were properly proveable and admissible under the provisions of the indian evidence act, and we, accordingly, allowed the plaintiffs to prove and put in copies of the various documents relating to the foundation of various charitable institutions. the ..... own discretion.mr. strangman suggests that mr. lowndes should, at all events, complete his evidence on the instance of the convert soonabai.172. mr. lowndes acted up to mr. strangman's suggestion, called only such evidence as completed the incident of soonabai's conversion, and stopped calling any further evidence of witnesses .....

L.O. Clarke Vs. Brojendra Kishore Roy Chowdhry

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : (1909)ILR36Cal433

..... legislature by carefully attending to the whole scope of the statute to be considered.' now the object of the provisions of the arms act, and especially of section 25 of that act, is clearly to preserve the public peace. can it be held that the directions in section 25 were in their nature so mandatory that the failure to ..... , which was due to exceptional conditions, stress of circumstances and the emergent necessity for prompt action, be held so to nullify his act as to convert what was right and justifiable for the preservation of the public peace into an actionable wrong to hold that it would have that effect appears hardly to be consistent with the rules ..... impose restriction on the manufacture, sale, import, export and transport and the possession of arms and ammunition, with a view to preserve the public peace and in directing a search under section 25 of the act the magistrate has to proceed on information laid to him disclosing that the person is in possession of arms, etc., for any .....

In Re: Pandurang Shidrao

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : (1910)12BOMLR1029

..... the matter wrongly when, at the beginning of his reasons for the order, he observed that the question before him was ' whether it was necessary for the preservation of the public peace to refuse permission.' it would seem that the district magistrate has left his order exposed to this attack by neglecting the elementary precaution of ..... following strictly the language of the statute under which he was acting, so that the question which he proposed to himself is not accurately the question which arises on the plain words of the section. but we think that ..... criminal procedure code. mr. branson in contending for the affirmative has urged that the order is not such an order as could be made under section 44 of the police act, and that it therefore falls within the reach of our revisional powers. in support of the argument reference is made to the somewhat similar powers conferred on .....

Peary Mohan Das Vs. D. Weston and ors.

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : 13Ind.Cas.721

..... .318. this time has to be fixed, as mr. weston admits that he had an interview with the plaintiff on the 19th july and also because the plaintiff s preserved a note (exhibit h) which mr. weston wrote to him on the 20th july. if it is established that after the date when mr. weston was fully aware ..... circumstances, it is not necessary for me to determine the fourth issue.532. the fifth issue is whether this suit is barred by limitation533. the article of the indian limitation act, 1908, which applies to the present suit is i think, article 86. this suit is, i think, a suit 'for compensation for any malfeasance, misfeasance or nonfeasance ..... pretext that he ?wished to kill mr. cornish for having stopped some mohamodan religious ceremony. satyendra, it is said, told rahman that mr. weston was responsible as cornish acted under his orders and suggested that rahman should shoot mr. weston. rahman says he feigned assent and satyendra lent him this revolver, exhibit xxi. the moulvi says he produced .....

PulIn Behary Das and ors. Vs. Emperor

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : 16Ind.Cas.257

..... of the public and the individual where those interests were involved in the official acts of persons exercising the duties of an office without being lawful officers. the doctrine in fact is necessary to maintain the supremacy of the law and to preserve peace and order in the community at large. indeed, if any individual or ..... to what is described as the internal secrets or the internal matters, which were not only not to be divulged but not even discussed. the other provisions, to preserve the secrecy of mantras, to guard the society against conspirators, and finally to mete out just punishments to all antagonists, do seem remarkable in what, it is ..... community--the improvement, physical and moral, of the bengali race. at the same time, the samity had a jealously guarded secret, and every effort was made to preserve it inviolate. the members were bound by solemn oaths of secrecy and willingly subjected themselves to semi-military discipline. the samity was to be the central institution to .....

Minnesota Rate Case

Court : US Supreme Court

..... . be deemed navigable waters of the united states, over which congress, under its commercial power, may exercise control to the extent necessary to protect, preserve, and improve their free navigation. but the states have full power to regulate within their limits matters of internal police, including in that general designation ..... state power, independently of federal legislation, is thus limited, the inquiry need proceed no further. otherwise it must be determined whether congress has so acted as to create such a restriction upon the state authority theretofore existing. (1.) the general principles governing the exercise of state authority when interstate ..... respect to grain and livestock, the principal agricultural products of the state, the companies maintained an "inharmonious jumble of arbitrary rates," and that the acts and orders in question were designed to correct inequalities in the intrastate tariffs, and to prescribe charges which, upon thorough investigation and after public .....

Legal Remembrancer Vs. Matilal Ghose and ors.

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : (1914)ILR41Cal173

..... field in ex parte robinson (1873) 19 wallace 505. 'the power to punish for contempt is inherent in all courts. its existence is essential to the preservation of order in judicial proceedings and to the enforcement of the judgments, orders, and writs of courts, and consequently to the due administration of justice.' gray, ..... vindication of the public authority, the proceedings conform as nearly as possible to proceedings in criminal cases. it is conceivable that the dividing line between the acts constituting criminal and those constituting civil contempts may become indistinct in those cases where the two gradually merge into each other. but, in ordinary cases the ..... should become and be records and documents of the high court.21. by section 9 it was enacted that 'the high courts to be established under this act should have and exercise all such civil, criminal, admiralty and vice-admiralty, testamentary, intestate and matrimonial jurisdiction, original and appellate, and all such powers and .....