special charter
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 84 U.S. 425 - State v. Stoll · 1873Most cited · 112 citing opinions
The provisions of a special charter or a special authority derived from the legislature are not affected by general legislation on the subject. The two are to be deemed to stand together; one as the general law of the land, the other as the law of the particular case.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “special charter” — 112 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.