Regulate
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
The power to regulate ferries, conferred upon the common council of a city, was held not to include the power to prohibit them without a license being first obtained for them.
Duckwall v
City of New Albany, 25 Ind. 283.
An act to regulate the sale of liquor may embrace entire prohibition of sales to a certain class of persons, such as minors.
Williams V. State, 48 Ind. 306.
Under a statute giving power to cities to regulate sales by auctioneers and transient merchants, a city has no power to pass an ordinance making a resident merchant employed in selling goods at retail pay a tax of a certain per cent of the amount of sales of a portion of his merchandise, which he employs an auctioneer to sell.
Oskaloosa B. Tullis, 25 Iowa, 440.
Regulate, in the provision of the St. Louis city charter of 1870, permitting an ordinance "to regulate bawdy-houses," certainly implies the continued existence of the matter to be regulated.
State v. Clarke, 54 Mo. 17.
A charter power "to erect, repair, and regulate public wharves and docks," imports a power to alter by extension or diminution. City of Hannibal w.
Winchell, 54 Mo. 172.