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1936

Municipal corporations

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Revenue Financing Of Public Enterprises, E. H. Foley Jr. Nov 1936

Revenue Financing Of Public Enterprises, E. H. Foley Jr.

Michigan Law Review

Courts have been slow to take judicial notice of the growing needs of local communities. Legislatures have restrained municipal corporations from engaging in business enterprises upon the assumption that the object was mere hope of gain, that the investment of municipal funds in such enterprises was simply a speculation, or that the effect was to divert municipal corporations from their legitimate ends and to poach upon the preserves of private enterprise. Novel municipal undertakings have been feared as an entering wedge of state socialism or governmental paternalism. Even when the instrumentality of private adventure was disposed to leave a need …


Book Review. Stason, E.B., Cases And Other Materials On The Law Of Municipal Corporations, Ralph F. Fuchs Jan 1936

Book Review. Stason, E.B., Cases And Other Materials On The Law Of Municipal Corporations, Ralph F. Fuchs

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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