Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Illinois, Volume 130 |
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Page 294 - It is perhaps correct .to say that public policy is that principle of law which holds that no person can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good...
Page 21 - The property of the State, counties and other municipal corporations, both real and personal, and such other property as may be used exclusively for agricultural and horticultural societies, for schools, religious, cemetery and charitable purposes, may be exempted from taxation; but such exemption shall be only by general law...
Page 297 - Granting to any corporation, association or individual any special or exclusive privilege, immunity or franchise whatever.
Page 110 - Jersey, the decree of the District Court will be reversed and the cause remanded with directions to enter a decree in conformity with this opinion...
Page 252 - Where the Legislature, in terms, confers upon a municipal corporation the power to pass ordinances of a specified and defined character, if the power thus delegated be not in conflict with the Constitution, an ordinance passed pursuant thereto cannot be impeached as invalid because it would have been regarded as unreasonable if it had been passed under the incidental power of the corporation, or under a grant of power general in its nature.
Page 593 - That no debt created by the fraud or embezzlement of the bankrupt, or by his defalcation as a public officer, or while acting in any fiduciary character, shall be discharged under this act...
Page 286 - That corporations may be formed in the manner provided by this Act, for any lawful purpose except banking, insurance, real estate brokerage, the operation of railroads and the business of loaning money...
Page 579 - The General Assembly may vest the corporate authorities of cities, towns and villages with power to make local improvements by special assessment or by special taxation of contiguous property or otherwise.
Page 266 - An act to amend an act to amend section sixty-two (62) of an act entitled 'An act to revise and amend an act and certain sections thereof entitled, an act to provide for the construction, reparation and protection of drains, ditches and levees across the lands of others for agricultural, sanitary and mining purposes, and to provide for the organization of drainage districts...
Page 478 - The question is not so much what was the degree of memory possessed by the testator? as this: Had he a disposing memory? was he capable of recollecting the property he was about to bequeath; the manner of distributing it; and the objects of his bounty?