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Pollock Vs. Farmers' Loan and Trust Co.

Court : US Supreme Court

..... shall be thus apportioned. it had been a favorite doctrine in england and in the colonies, before the adoption of the constitution, that taxation and representation should go together. the constitution prescribes such apportionment among the several states according to their respective numbers, to be determined by adding to the whole ..... states in union, there could be no such political body as the united states. both the states and the united states existed before the constitution. the people, through that instrument, established a more perfect union by substituting a national government, acting, with ample power, directly upon the citizens, instead of the ..... with america, the defenders of the excellence of the english constitution "took infinite pains to inculcate, as a fundamental principle, that, in all monarchies, the people must, in effect, themselves, mediately or immediately, possess the power of granting their own money, or no shadow of liberty could subsist." the principle .....

Pollock Vs. Farmers' Loan and Trust Company

Court : US Supreme Court

..... real estate and of personal property, being a direct tax within the meaning of the constitution, and therefore unconstitutional and void because not apportioned according to representation, all those sections, constituting one entire scheme of taxation, are necessarily invalid. the decrees hereinbefore entered in the court will be vacated, the decrees ..... uniformly held that the government could not be safely administered except upon principles of right, justice, and equality -- without discrimination against any part of the people because of their owning or not owning visible property or because of their having or not having incomes from bonds and stocks. but, by its present ..... residing in different sections of their common country such as the framers of the constitution never could have contemplated, such as no free and enlightened people can ever possibly sanction or approve. the practical operation of the decision is not only to disregard the great principles of equality in taxation, but .....

Juggut Chunder Chowdhry Vs. Golack Chunder Ghose and ors.

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : (1896)ILR23Cal522

..... lease of his 3 annas share to the petitioner, who then began to collect or to attempt to collect the rent due to him as putnidar. this led to a representation by the manager; and the district judge, after hearing the objections of the petitioner, ruled that he could not be allowed personally to collect his 3 annas share of the .....

Adams Vs. Henderson

Court : US Supreme Court

..... land was described as lying in township six. the mortgage was duly signed, witnessed, and acknowledged, reed and henderson at the time fully believing and acting upon the representation of the grantors as to title, and paying to the grantors the interest on said notes down to and including september 26, 1890, which amounted to $180. they ..... in cash, and time was given for the payment of the balance, with interest. they would not have made the purchase if they had not believed the above representation as to title to be true. on the 27th of march, 1890, reed and henderson received from adams and shilling a deed of general warranty for the following ..... had no knowledge as to the title. but shilling and adams promised that they would furnish an abstract of title. reed and henderson, relying and acting upon the representation of adams and shilling that they had a good and indefeasible estate in fee simple to the lands inquired about, without investigation the title, purchased an undivided two- .....

Thomas Vs. Gay

Court : US Supreme Court

..... fundamental of these objections is found in the assertion that, so far as nonresident owners of cattle grazing within the indian reservations are concerned, it is taxation without representation, and that such persons derive no benefit from the expenditure of the moneys accruing from the tax. the organic act, as we have already seen, extends the ..... valid, yet that the balance of the taxes, levied for county purposes and expended within the geographical limits of kay county are unauthorized for the reason that the people on these reservations are not interested in such taxes, and receive no benefit from their expenditure. but as it seems to us, it cannot be maintained that ..... fund, sinking fund, road and bridge fund, poor fund, etc. undoubtedly there are general principles, familiar to our systems of state and federal government, that the people who pay taxes imposed by laws are entitled to have a voice in the election of those who pass the laws, and that taxes must be assessed and collected .....

Holden Vs. Hardy

Court : US Supreme Court

..... of the first class, which, for the sake of brevity, may be termed unjust discriminations, are those wherein the colored race was alleged to have been denied the right of representation upon juries, strauder v. west virginia, 100 u. s. 303 ; virginia v. rives, 100 u. s. 313 ; ex parte virginia, 100 u. s. 339 ; neal v. ..... it was, prior to the adoption of the constitution, but sparingly used in this country. as we were then almost page 169 u. s. 393 purely an agricultural people, the occasion for any special protection of a particular class did not exist. certain profitable employments, such as lotteries and the sale of intoxicating liquors, which were then ..... science; that, in some states, methods of procedure which, at the time the constitution was adopted, were deemed essential to the protection and safety of the people or to the liberty of the citizen have been found to be no longer necessary; that restrictions which had formerly been laid upon the conduct of individuals or classes .....

theivu Pandithan and anr. Vs. Secretary of State for India and

Court : Chennai

Reported in : (1898)ILR21Mad433

..... that, so far as this particular district was concerned, the system of taxing each tree had not in any way discouraged the industry in question.5. this representation induced the government to order the re-introduction in the district of the old form of taxation in so far as palmyra trees alone were concerned. this was ..... plantations. but that mode of assessing government revenue operated so harshly on the holders of topes that large number of persons relinquished their topes to the government and people generally refrained from planting taxable trees anew. in 1853, the government therefore ordered the abolition of so oppressive a system of assessing revenue and directed the substitution ..... person grows on a piece of assessed government land such trees in sufficient numbers and fairly closely over the land, so as to form, in the language of the people accepted by the revenue authorities themselves, a tope' (paragraphs 3 and 9, extract m. c, 31st may 1855, no. 655, and paragraph 7, extract from .....

Mcmullen Vs. Hoffman

Court : US Supreme Court

..... concealment, and deception. the one applicant, though apparently antagonizing the other, is really supporting the latter's application, and the public authorities are misled by statements and representations coming from a supposed adverse, but in fact friendly, source." in that case, the demurrer admitted the allegation of the complaint that the combination of the two interests ..... of the kind, but simply that a committee receiving such a bid, and assuming it to be a bona fide bid, would naturally regard it as a representation that the work to be done, with a fair profit, would, in the opinion of the bidder, cost the amount bid. hence it would almost certainly tend ..... in this case because it naturally fits them. its enforcement here is to but carry into effect the public policy upon which the rule itself is founded. people who have been guilty of the conduct exhibited in this record cannot be heard to say that, although their arrangement was fraudulent and illegal, they would nevertheless .....

Taylor and Marshall Vs. Beckham

Court : US Supreme Court

..... the source of all political power, but that, as the exercise of governmental powers immediately by the people themselves is impracticable, they must be exercised by representatives of the people; that the basis of representation is suffrage; that the right of suffrage must be protected and its exercise prescribed by previous law ..... fourteenth amendment to said constitution, the benefits of which provisions are hereby specially set up and claimed by these defendants both for themselves and for the people of kentucky and the qualified voters thereof whose representatives and trustees these defendants are." " * * * *" "defendants further say that, if the state ..... , and the results ascertained by some certain rule; that, through its regulated exercise, each man's power tells in the constitution of the government and in the enactment of laws; that the people .....

Srish Chunder Bose Vs. Nachim Kazi and ors.

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : (1900)ILR27Cal827

..... , be right to construe article 8, as limited to suits brought by the landlord and so as to exclude suits brought by a person who represented the landlord, whether the representation was by an assignment or otherwise.'4. the bulk of the authorities cited in the reference appear to me to support, this view, which on principle seems to me to .....