Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump · ¶94
These cases are not outliers. Treatises confirm that the extraordinary power principle was fundamental to municipal corporations. A statute could “not by implication invest [a] body with any extraordinary authority.” J. Willcock, The Law of Municipal Corporations ¶226, p. 99 (1827). Extraordinary powers required “express words to that effect.” Ibid. And “[a]ny fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence of power [was] resolved by the courts against the corporation, and the power [was] denied.” 1 J. Dillon, Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations 145 (4th ed. 1890).Read in context ›
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