Report of the Committee on Insurance Law1905 - 32 pages |
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... York , Massachusetts and Con- necticut , of the solvency , etc. , of companies of those states . The figures furnished by Senator Dryden in his recent address before the Boston Life Underwriters ' Association ( November 22 , 1904 ) show ...
... York , Massachusetts and Con- necticut , of the solvency , etc. , of companies of those states . The figures furnished by Senator Dryden in his recent address before the Boston Life Underwriters ' Association ( November 22 , 1904 ) show ...
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... York Life Ins . Co. vs. Cravens , 178 U. S. 389 [ 1899 ] ; Nutting vs. Mass . , 183 U. S. 553 [ 1901 ] . ) In all these cases , except New York Life Ins . Co. vs. Cravens , the principal question involved was whether a cor- poration of ...
... York Life Ins . Co. vs. Cravens , 178 U. S. 389 [ 1899 ] ; Nutting vs. Mass . , 183 U. S. 553 [ 1901 ] . ) In all these cases , except New York Life Ins . Co. vs. Cravens , the principal question involved was whether a cor- poration of ...
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... York corporation , had the right to erect and operate a telegraph line in the State of Florida , notwithstand- ing an act passed by the legislature of Florida incorporating the Pensacola Telegraph Company , which granted it " the sole ...
... York corporation , had the right to erect and operate a telegraph line in the State of Florida , notwithstand- ing an act passed by the legislature of Florida incorporating the Pensacola Telegraph Company , which granted it " the sole ...
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... York and Baltimore to cover locations in half a dozen or more states . Every such transaction is in its essence commercial intercourse among the people of the several states . Insurance in its various forms is then as vital to the com ...
... York and Baltimore to cover locations in half a dozen or more states . Every such transaction is in its essence commercial intercourse among the people of the several states . Insurance in its various forms is then as vital to the com ...
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... York Life Ins . Co. vs. Statham , 93 U. S. 24 ; New York Life Ins . Co. vs. Davis , 95 U. S. 425. ) In the Davis case Mr. Justice Bradley said : " That war suspends all commercial intercourse between the citizens of two belligerent ...
... York Life Ins . Co. vs. Statham , 93 U. S. 24 ; New York Life Ins . Co. vs. Davis , 95 U. S. 425. ) In the Davis case Mr. Justice Bradley said : " That war suspends all commercial intercourse between the citizens of two belligerent ...
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Page 27 - Commerce with foreign countries, and among the States, strictly considered, consists in intercourse and traffic, including in these terms navigation, and the transportation and transit of persons and property, as well as the purchase, sale, and exchange of commodities.
Page 9 - The powers thus granted are not confined to the instrumentalities of commerce, or the postal service known or in use when the Constitution was adopted, but they keep pace with the progress of the country and adapt themselves to the new developments of time and circumstances.
Page 27 - It will not be denied that that portion of commerce with foreign countries and between the States which consists in the transportation and exchange of commodities is of national importance, and admits and requires uniformity of regulation. The very object of investing this power in the General Government was to insure this uniformity against discriminating state legislation.
Page 10 - Constitutional provisions do not change, but their operation extends to new matters as the modes of business and the habits of life of the people vary with each succeeding generation. The law of the common carrier is the same to-day as when transportation on land was by coach and wagon, and on water by canal boat and sailing vessel, yet in its actual operation it touches and regulates transportation by modes then unknown, the railroad train and the steamship. Just so is it with the grant to the national...
Page 17 - The subject to which the power is next applied is to commerce " among the several States." The word "among " means intermingled with. A thing which is among others is intermingled with them. Commerce among the States cannot stop at the external boundary line of each State, but may be introduced into the ulterior.
Page 19 - Whatever our individual views may be as to the deleterious or dangerous qualities of particular articles, we cannot hold that any articles which Congress recognizes as subjects of interstate commerce are not such, or that whatever are thus recognized can be controlled by State laws amounting to regulations, while they retain that character...
Page 26 - Commerce is a term of the largest import. It comprehends intercourse for the purposes of trade in any and all its forms, including the transportation, purchase, sale, and exchange of commodities...
Page 26 - Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more, — it is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse.
Page 9 - This provision is made in a constitution intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs.
Page 26 - Commerce, in its simplest signification, means an exchange of goods; but in the advancement of society, labor, transportation, intelligence, care, and various mediums of exchange, become commodities, and enter into commerce; 230*] the subject, *the vehicle, the agent, and their various operations, become the objects of commercial regulation.