United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ... and Rules Announced at ..., Volume 204

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Page 383 - which necessarily involves a discretion as to what it shall be and conferring authority or discretion as to its execution, to be exercised under and in pursuance of the law. The first cannot be done; to the latter no valid objection can be made.' Cincinnati, Wilmington &c. Railroad v. Commissioners, 1 Ohio St.
Page 383 - impossible to fully know.' The proper distinction the court said was this: 'The legislature cannot delegate its power to make a law; but it can make a law to delegate a power to determine some fact or state of things upon which the law makes, or intends to make, its own action depend.
Page 438 - section of the act it was provided as follows: " That any person or persons claiming to be damaged by any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act may either make complaint to the Commission, as hereinafter provided for, or may bring suit in his or their own behalf for the recovery
Page 311 - The police power of a State embraces regulations designed to promote the public convenience or the general prosperity as well as those to promote public health, morals or safety; it is not confined to the suppression of what is offensive, disorderly or unsanitary, but extends to what is for the greatest welfare of the State.
Page 270 - all veins, lodes, and ledges throughout their entire depth, the top or apex of which lies inside of such surface-lines extended downward vertically, although such veins, lodes, or ledges may so far depart from a perpendicular in their course downward as to extend outside the vertical side-lines of said surface locations.
Page 156 - is only a way of stating that it takes appellant's property " without due process of law," against the Federal and state constitutions; and denies to the holders of the stock of corporations " the equal protection of the laws," in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to
Page 188 - 6. The debts to have priority, except as herein provided, and to be paid in full out of bankrupt estates, and the order of payment, shall be ... (4) wages due to workmen, clerks, or servants which have been earned within three months before the date of the commencement of proceedings, not to exceed
Page 428 - property in interstate or foreign commerce, whereby any such property shall, by any device whatever, be transported at a less rate than that named in the tariffs published and filed by such carrier, as is required by said act to regulate commerce and the acts amendatory thereof.
Page 188 - (4) wages due to workmen, clerks, or servants which have been earned within three months before the date of the commencement of proceedings, not to exceed $300 to each claimant; . . ." The precise inquiry is whether the right of prior payment thus conferred is attached to the person or to the claim of the
Page 722 - The police power of a State embraces regulations designed to promote the public convenience or the general prosperity as well as those to promote public health, morals or safety; it is not confined to the suppression of what is offensive, disorderly or unsanitary, but extends to what is for the greatest welfare of the State. Bacon v. Walker,

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