Commentaries Vol. 1: The Law of Municipal Corporations (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Commentaries Vol. 1: The Law of Municipal Corporations<br><br>The necessity for a work upon Municipal Corporations was so seriously felt by the author when holding a seat on the Supreme Bench of a State where questions relating to the powers duties and liabilities Of municipalities were presented at almost every term that he resolved eight years ago and more to endeavor to supply the want. Although the subject is one of unsurpassed practical importance since nearly every considerable city and town in the United States is incorporated no American work upon it has ever appeared. A careful examination of the English treatises satisfied the author that they were in a great measure inapplicable here and that they fail to cover a large portion of the existing field of the law upon the subject as enlarged by American legislation and practice. True our municipal system like the body of our jurisprudence was derived from England but it is remarkable how many changes were necessary to adapt it to Our system of government and mode of administration and to the wants and situation of our people. Accordingly if the municipalities of the one country be closely compared with those of the other it will be found that in their structure powers and workings they present quite as many points of difference as of similarity.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.