Circular of the Bureau of Standards, Tema 540

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1953

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Página 33 - The writ of mandamus may be denominated the writ of mandate.— 1873-345. 1085. It may be issued by any court, except a justice's or police court, to any inferior tribunal, corporation, board, or person, to compel the performance of an act which the law specially enjoins, as a duty resulting from an office, trust, or station...
Página 16 - Any county, city, town, or township may make and enforce within its limits all such local, police, sanitary, and other regulations as are not in conflict with general laws.
Página 15 - In all other cases where a general law can be made applicable, no special law shall be enacted.
Página 68 - Every act shall embrace but one subject, and matters properly connected therewith ; which subject shall be expressed in the title. But if any subject shall be embraced in an act, which shall not be expressed in the title, such act shall be void only as to so much thereof as shall not be expressed in the title.
Página 4 - ... when the importer has so acted upon the thing imported, that it has become incorporated and mixed up with the mass of property in the country, it has, perhaps, lost its distinctive character as an import, and has become subject to the taxing power of the State; but while remaining the property of the importer, in his warehouse, in the original form or package in which it was imported, a tax upon it is too plainly a duty on imports to escape the prohibition in the constitution.
Página 41 - no law shall embrace more than one subject, which shall be expressed in its title,
Página 36 - It is also true, that where great inconvenience will result from a particular construction, that construction is to be avoided, unless the meaning of the legislature be plain ; in which case it must be obeyed.
Página 78 - When the subject lies within the police power of the state, debatable questions as to reasonableness are not for the courts but for the Legislature, which is entitled to form its own judgment, and its action within its range of discretion cannot be set aside because compliance is burdensome.
Página 35 - Speaking generally, we would say that an original package, as applied to interstate and international commerce, is a package, bundle, or aggregation of goods, put up, in whatever form, covering, or receptacle, for transportation and as a unit transported from one State or nation to another.
Página 18 - ... may direct its law against what it deems the evil as it actually exists, without covering the whole field of possible abuses, and it may do so none the less that the forbidden act does not differ in kind from those that are allowed.

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