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... points treated in charters varies from about a dozen to more than forty . In a very small number of cases charters are even more fragmentary . The fragmentary charter may have been granted for an important railway , and the complete ...
... points treated in charters varies from about a dozen to more than forty . In a very small number of cases charters are even more fragmentary . The fragmentary charter may have been granted for an important railway , and the complete ...
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... point ; such as sign boards , fences , right of way , and the ringing of bells . Gradually the scope of the general laws was extended , until finally they embraced all the provisions of the best private charters and became general laws ...
... point ; such as sign boards , fences , right of way , and the ringing of bells . Gradually the scope of the general laws was extended , until finally they embraced all the provisions of the best private charters and became general laws ...
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... point of view of a railway company whose system lies in different states . A railway system should be operated as a unified network . This is demanded alike by public and private interests . But how can the best results be obtained if ...
... point of view of a railway company whose system lies in different states . A railway system should be operated as a unified network . This is demanded alike by public and private interests . But how can the best results be obtained if ...
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... points of view which were later incorporated in general laws . The relative promptness and thoroughness with which European countries legislated upon railway subjects saved them from some of the excesses of the evils from which we have ...
... points of view which were later incorporated in general laws . The relative promptness and thoroughness with which European countries legislated upon railway subjects saved them from some of the excesses of the evils from which we have ...
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... points common to all these railways , additional legislation should be formulated for each separate class of railways . It seems highly inex- pedient to attempt to regulate a great interstate system by means of the same laws which are ...
... points common to all these railways , additional legislation should be formulated for each separate class of railways . It seems highly inex- pedient to attempt to regulate a great interstate system by means of the same laws which are ...
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Страница 298 - Commission (and produce books and papers if so ordered) and give evidence touching the matter in question ; and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof.
Страница 297 - ... keep itself informed as to the manner and method in which the same is conducted, and shall have the right to obtain from such common carriers full and complete information necessary to enable the Commission to perform the duties and carry out the objects for which it was created...
Страница 287 - America in congress assembled, that the provisions of this act shall apply to any common carrier or carriers engaged in the transportation of passengers or property wholly by railroad, or partly by railroad and partly by water when both are used, under a common control, management or arrangement, for a continuous carriage or shipment...
Страница 294 - Act required to be done, such common carrier shall be liable to the person or persons injured thereby for the full amount of damages sustained in consequence of any such violation...
Страница 297 - ... the date of the taking effect of this Act, the term of each to be designated by the President, but their successors shall be appointed for terms of seven years, except that any person chosen to fill a vacancy shall be appointed only for the unexpired term of the commissioner whom he shall succeed.
Страница 193 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created. He may withdraw his grant by discontinuing the use; but, so long as he maintains the use, he...
Страница 234 - An Act to regulate commerce," approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, or of any amendment thereof, on the ground or for the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him, may tend to criminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture. But no person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing, concerning which he may testify, or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise,...
Страница 313 - An act [to amend an act entitled an act] to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Страница 295 - ... done, or shall aid or abet any such omission or failure, or shall be guilty of any infraction of this act, or shall aid or abet therein, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof in any district court of the United States within the jurisdiction of which such offense was committed, be subject to a fine of not to exceed five thousand dollars for each offense...
Страница 289 - That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act to enter into any contract, agreement, or combination with any other common carrier or carriers for the pooling of freights of different and competing railroads, or to divide between them the aggregate or net proceeds of the earnings of such railroads, or any portion thereof...