Annual Report of the Attorney General of the State of New York

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Attorney General's Office, 1920
Includes a section called Opinions of the Attorney General.

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Página 195 - The lands of the State, now owned or hereafter acquired, constituting the forest preserve as now fixed by law, shall be forever kept as wild forest lands. They shall not be leased, sold or exchanged, or be taken by any corporation, public or private, nor shall the timber thereon be sold, removed or destroyed.
Página 96 - It is a familiar canon of construction that a thing which is within the intention of the makers of a statute is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter; and a thing which is within the letter of the statute is not within the statute unless it be within the intention of the makers.
Página 120 - No county, city, town or village shall hereafter give any money or property, or loan its money or credit to or in aid of any individual, association or corporation, or become directly or indirectly the owner of stock in, or bonds of, any association or corporation; nor shall any such county, city, town or village be allowed to incur any indebtedness except for county, city, town or village purposes.
Página 73 - ... hours after death, unless a permit for burial, removal, or other disposition thereof shall have been properly issued by the Local Registrar of the registration district in which the death occurred or the body was found.
Página 322 - The Legislature shall provide for filling vacancies in office, and in case of elective officers, no person appointed to fill a vacancy shall hold his office by virtue of such appointment longer than the commencement of the political year next succeeding the first annual election a,fter the happening of the vacancy.
Página 247 - ... the names and places of residence of the persons to be its directors until its first annual meeting, and the time for holding its annual meetings.
Página 377 - Against a person who usurps, intrudes into, or unlawfully holds or exercises within the State, a franchise or a public office, CÍTÍ1 or military, or an office in a domestic corporation.
Página 247 - On filing such certificate, in pursuance of law, the signers thereof, their associates and successors, shall be a corporation, in accordance with the provisions of such certificate.
Página 231 - No person shall be eligible to the Legislature, who at the time of his election, is, or within one hundred days previous thereto has been, a member of Congress, a civil or military officer under the United States, or an officer under any city government.
Página 275 - Great deference is certainly due to a legislative exposition of a constitutional provision, and especially when it is made almost contemporaneously with such provision, and may be supposed to result from the same views of policy, and modes of reasoning which prevailed among the framers of the instrument propounded.

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