California Law Review, Volume 2School of Jurisprudence of the University of California, 1914 |
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Page 5 - What the company is entitled to ask is a fair return upon the value of that which it employs for the public convenience. On the other hand, what the public is entitled to demand is that no more be exacted from it for the use of a public highway than the services rendered by it are reasonably worth.
Page 51 - Novation is the substitution of a new obligation for an existing one. 1531. Modes of novation. Novation is made: 1. By the substitution of a new obligation between the same parties, with intent to extinguish the old obligation; 2.
Page 462 - The Legislature shall provide for a system of common schools by which a free school shall be kept up and supported in each district at least six months in every year, after the first year in which a school has been established.
Page 302 - ... of the sole working or making of any manner of new manufactures within this realm, to the true and jint inventor and inventors of such manufactures, which others, at the time of making such letters patent and grants, shall not use...
Page 214 - The legislature may, by appropriate legislation, provide for the establishment of a minimum wage for women and minors and may provide for the comfort, health, safety and general welfare of any and all employees. No provision of this constitution shall be construed as a limitation upon the authority of the legislature to confer upon any commission now or hereafter created such power and authority as the legislature may deem requisite to carry out the provisions of this section.
Page 46 - ... as of the date of the filing of the petition initiating a proceeding under this title * * * to all of the following kinds of property * * * (5) property, including rights of action, which prior to the filing of the petition he could by any means have transferred or which might have been levied upon and sold under judicial process against him...
Page 224 - When we inquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find, that, as Force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is, therefore, on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as to the most free and most popular.
Page 11 - The company would certainly have no ground of complaint if it were allowed a value for these lands equal to the fair average market value of similar land in the vicinity, without additions by the use of multipliers, or otherwise, to cover hypothetical outlays.
Page 8 - ... and we concur with the court below in holding that the value of the property is to be determined as of the time when the inquiry is made regarding the rates.
Page 471 - The public school system shall include primary and grammar schools, and such high schools, evening schools, normal schools, and technical schools as may be established by the Legislature, or by municipal or district authority. The entire revenue derived from the State school fund and from the general State school tax shall be applied exclusively to the support of primary and grammar schools...