 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1873 - 724 páginas
...The People v. Board of Imp. of Union St. 43 id. 227. ) IV. It is a principle of universal acceptance that municipal corporations can levy no taxes, general...unless the power be plainly and unmistakably conferred, and the burden is upon the corporation to show the grant, either by express words or necessary implication.... | |
 | William Wait - 1878 - 1004 páginas
...Gill (Md.), 383 ; State v. Linn County Court, 44 Mo. 504 ; Primm v. City of Belleville, 59 111. 142. The authority must be given either in express words, or by necessary implication, and it cannot be collected by doubtful inferences from other powers, or powers relating to other subjects,... | |
 | 1879 - 552 páginas
...Dillion on Mun, Cov. sec. 605, that "it is a principle universally declared and admitted, that municlpal corporations can levy no taxes, general or special,...the power be plainly and unmistakably conferred." It is true as contended by defendant that the power to tax has not been delegated to the City of St. Louis... | |
 | James Kirby - 1882 - 462 páginas
...Municipal Corporations, § 763, 3rd edition: «It is a principle universally declared and admitted that municipal corporations can levy no taxes, general or special, upon the inLabitant» or their property, unless the power be plainly and unmistakably conferred. § 764. Therefore... | |
 | 1897 - 1148 páginas
...474. Or, as Judge Dillon puts the same doctrine: "It is a principle universally declared and admitted that municipal corporations can levy no taxes, general...must be given either in express words or by necessary or unmistakable implication, and that It cannot be collected by doubtful inferences from other powers,... | |
 | 1886 - 1052 páginas
...council aiid mayor in levying taxes upon occupations or business. It is a principle universally declared that municipal corporations can levy no taxes, general...unless the power be plainly and unmistakably conferred. The authority must be given either by express words or by necessary implications, and it cannot be... | |
 | 1889 - 956 páginas
...answer, the court delivered the following opinion: "It is a principle universally declared and admitted that municipal corporations can levy no taxes, general...unless the power be plainly and unmistakably conferred, and the authority must be clearly and strictly pursued. 2 Dill. Mim. Corp. § 768. Thus it appears... | |
 | 1893 - 982 páginas
...Selma, above quoted. Acts 1882 -S3. p. 414, § 27. "It is a principle universally declared and admitted that municipal corporations can levy no taxes, general...unless the power be plainly and unmistakably conferred. " Dill. Mun. Corp. (4th Ed.) § 703. Or, as sometimes more tersely stated, "municipal corporations... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - 1887 - 768 páginas
...city of Santa Cruz does not authorize the city to levy such tax " for the streets and alleys thereof." Municipal corporations can levy no taxes, general...unless the power be plainly and unmistakably conferred. (Dill, on Munic. Corp., § 763; Caldwell v. Rupert, 10 Bush (Ky.), 182; SewaU v. St. Paul, 20 Minn.... | |
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It is a principle universally declared and admitted that municipal corporations can levy no taxes, general or special, upon the inhabitants or their property, unless the power be plainly and unmistakably conferred. 
