CHARLES RIVER BRIDGE CASE

decided in 1837 by the U.S. Supreme Court. The Charles River Bridge Company had been granted (1785) a charter by the state of Massachusetts to operate a toll bridge. The state later authorized (1828) a competing bridge that would eventually be free to the public. The Charles River Bridge Company brought suit against the competing company, claiming that the state charter had given it a monopoly. The court upheld the state's authorization to the other company, holding that since the original charter did not specifically grant a monopoly, the ambiguity in the contract would operate in favor of the public, thus allowing a competing bridge. The holding modified the Dartmouth College Case, which held that a state could not unilaterally amend a charter.

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books on: Charles River Bridge Case  - 315 results

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River Management: The Australasian Experience
Book by Sandra Brizga, Brian Finlayson; John Wiley & Sons, 2000
Subjects: Rivers--Australasia--Regulation, Rivers--Australasia--Regulation--Case Studies, Rivers--Australia--Regulation, Rivers--Australia--Regulation--Case Studies
...levees bordering the river become very pronounced...going steamers like the Charles Edward, a vessel 39...Large vessels like the Charles Edward berthed at Clydebank...section of the Avon River at Chinns Bridge with bore data showing...
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Blood Justice: The Lynching of Mack Charles Parker
Book by Howard Smead; Oxford University Press, 1988
Subjects: Lynching--Mississippi--Case Studies, Parker, Mack Charles
...was seen proceeding on Highway 26, across the Pearl River Bridge Bogalusa Bridge , presumably into the State of Louisiana.Examination...Reyers car reached the Louisiana side of the Pearl River Bridge, it has not been conclusively shown that the...
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A Grand Terrible Dramma: From Gettysburg to Petersburg : The Civil War Letters of Charles Wellington Reed
Book by Charles Wellington Reed, Eric A. Campbell; Fordham University Press, 2000
Subjects: Artists--Massachusetts--Correspondence, Massachusetts--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Artillery Operations, Massachusetts--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal Narratives, Musicians--Massachusetts--Correspondence, Reed, Charles Wellington--1841-1926--Correspondence, Soldiers--Massachusetts--Correspondence, United States--Army--Massachusetts Light Artillery Battery, 9th (1862-1865)--History, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Artillery Operations, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal Narratives, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial Works
...towards morning near long bridge on the Chicahominy 1 Long Bridge spans the river. I Chickahommy River five m4es Who Q k rt d d j. J? southwest, or River five miles of MONDAY 13...marched Chickahominy River in case the I midnight. Confederates...
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Charles Burchfield's Journals: The Poetry of Place
Book by J. Benjamin Townsend, Charles Ephraim Burchfield; State University of New York Press, 1993
Subjects: Burchfield, Charles Ephraim--1893-1967--Diaries, Painters--United States--Diaries
...the car; so that in the case of a slip or breakage...seep in, talk of this bridge being out, that road...Grant Street 68 towards river. All the streets leading...a chill damp. Out on bridge over river. Here signs feeling of...
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The Letters of Charles Dickens - Vol. 11
Book by Graham Storey, Charles Dickens; Clarendon Press, 1999
Subjects: Dickens, Charles--1812-1870--Correspondence, Novelists, English--19th Century--Correspondence
...side of the broken bridge. I was not touched...comfortable. In that case, do. Ever Yours...not go over the bridge but hung...loosened plates on the bridge over the river Beult, between...245 ; according to Charles Igglesden, A Saunter...
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journal articles on: Charles River Bridge Case  - 892 results

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Unbuilding a Bridge to the Twenty-First Century: The Coast Guard, Common Sense, the Law, and Sustainable Development
Journal article by Paul Costa; Environmental Law, Vol. 31, 2001
Subjects: Bridges--Political aspects, National parks and reserves--Management, Rio Grande--Management, United States. Coast Guard--Powers and duties
...location.(120) The case law makes clear...alterations of an existing bridge over a navigable river so that it will...commerce on the river."(122) There...remove or alter bridges arbitrarily...alteration or removal of bridges that were obstructing...commerce on navigable rivers. The La Linda Bridge is not obstructing...
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The Shenandoah River Gundalow: Reusable Boats in Virginia's Nineteenth-century River Trade
Journal article by Seth C. Bruggeman; The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 118, 2010
Subjects: Capitalism, Ferries, Historians, Masonic organizations, Shenandoah River
...the Shenandoah Rivers north branch. Charles Lewis was born...That being the case, it appears that...the question of river navigation was...find an early case of Shenandoah River boats referred...and, in some cases, small gunboats...
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'We Are Not in Little England Now': Charles and Ellen Kean in Civil-War America
Journal article by John Ripley; Theatre Notebook, Vol. 61, 2007
Subjects: Kean, Charles--Social aspects, Kean, Charles--Works, Theater--Social aspects, Theatrical actors--Social aspects, Theatrical actors--Works, Theatrical directors--Social aspects, Theatrical directors--Works, Theatrical producers and directors--Social aspects, Theatrical producers and directors--Works, Tree, Ellen--Social aspects, Tree, Ellen--Works, United States Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865, United States history--Social aspects
...on the Columbia river en route to Portland...steer the ship in case the wheel broke...poignantly home to Charles some months later...demolished railway bridges were replaced...absence of a railway bridge, they were ferried...the Tennessee river to a train waiting...Fortunately for us all, Charles writes, we crossed...
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Patriotism and Charles Kean: Henry V in 1859
Journal article by Gail Marshall; Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, Vol. 36, 2009
Subjects: Kean, Charles, Middle class, Patriotism, Popularity, Theater, Theater criticism, Victorian period, War
...publishing editions of Shakespeare. In Keans case, he reproduced his acting texts, complete...representations of it. It may rather be the case that it was this aspect of the play which...us to be on our guard, and prepared in case of unprovoked attack. The remembrance...
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The Reed Family Planemakers: John Jr., William, Edward, and Charles
Journal article by Patrick M. Kelly, Louise A. Dean-Kelly; The Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association, Inc., Vol. 62, 2009
Subjects: Clark, Hiram, Family owned businesses, History, Manypeople, Reed, Charles, Reed, Edward, Reed, John Jr, Reed, William, Tools, United States, Woodworking equipment
...uncle again.54 Charles once again appears...railroads (the Hudson River and the New York...Company No. 3, Charles Reed.58 Hiram was...tutelage. In any case, Hirams planemaking...the late 1840s, Charles Reeds sister Emily...Street just across Bridge (Park) Street from...
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magazine articles on: Charles River Bridge Case  - 330 results

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Speaking across the Chasm: Literature as a Bridge between Science and Religion
Magazine article by Suchismita Sen; Cross Currents, Vol. 57, Spring 2007
Subjects: Evolution (Biology)--Religious aspects, Evolution--Religious aspects, Neurosciences--Religious aspects, Religions--Religious aspects, Software--Religious aspects, The Satanic Verses (Novel)--Religious aspects
...Literature as a Bridge between Science and...computer scientist, and Charles Taylor, a biologist...Frederich Engels, Charles Darwin, Alan Turing...great subterranean river of the mind, it...Satanic Verses as a Case Study Salman Rushdies...in most of these cases, few were comfortable...
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Safe and Secure?
Magazine article by Scott Albright; News Media and the Law, Vol. 31, Fall 2007
Subjects: Attorneys general, Bridges, Engineers, National security, Newspapers, Nursing homes, Public access, Sturgeon, Terrorism
...the Mississippi River on Aug. 1, killing...public oversight of bridge maintenance, Houston...pointed out that no bridge in the United States...least in Virginias case, appeared to be...since modified its bridge inspection report...to one of these bridges there is information...spokesman. "In some cases, that material...such a policy. Charles E. Van Allman Jr...
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Packetized Voice: It's the Software, Stupid!
Magazine article by Gary Audin; Business Communications Review, Vol. 32, September 2002
Subjects: Bridge and router software, Bridge routers, Bridge/routers, Computer software industry--Product information, Software, Software industry--Product information
...controllers. Wind River Systems is dominant...and, in some cases, without notification...problems. In one case, Cisco distributed...written by Charles C. Mann and published...accounts. Our worst case was a 55-second...afterwards. In some cases, software providers...suse.com) Wind River Systems (www...
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A Good Place to Die
Magazine article by Adam Dunn; Book, March 2001
Subjects: Authors--Biography, Lehane, Dennis--Biography, Mystic River (Book)--Evaluation
...exams were, just in case." While Lehane...with nods to the Charles Stuart race killing...beneath the Tobin Bridge, where even full...enough room in Mystic River to explore such deeper...early on that Mystic River is no workaday whodunit...investigation in Mystic River with incredible detail...culminating in Mystic Rivers Dave Boyle, a man...
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Hooking Leviathan by Its Past
Magazine article; Natural History, Vol. 103, May 1994
Subjects: Darwin, Charles (1809-82), Evolution, Fossils, Whales & whaling
...from eating fishes at river edges to crushing bones...colleagues found Pakicetus in river sediments bordering an...inhabited the mouths of rivers and adjacent shallow...conception of a whale. Case Two: Discovery of the...had already crossed the bridge (while retaining a most...of the bridge itself. Case Three: Hind limb bones...Basilosaurus hind legs (cases one and two above...
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newspaper articles on: Charles River Bridge Case  - 217 results

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1.
St. Charles Moves Bridge Project Along
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 6, 2011
Subjects: Bridge construction
...of the Red Gate Bridge project by approving...organization opposed to the bridge. But their arguments...the $30 million bridge. Some group members...concerns about the bridges proximity to St. Charles North High School...the eventual new river crossings to come...plans in place in case state grant money...
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St. Charles Moves Bridge Project Along
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 6, 2011
Subjects: Bridge construction
...of the Red Gate Bridge project by approving...organization opposed to the bridge. But their arguments...the $30 million bridge. Some group members...concerns about the bridges proximity to St. Charles North High School...the eventual new river crossings to come...plans in place in case state grant money...
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A Bridge of Memories; Wills and Kate Expected to Pose beside Romantic Crossing That Charles and Diana Made Famous
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 2, 2010
Subjects: Diana, Princess of Wales, Middleton, Kate
A Bridge of Memories; Wills...Romantic Crossing That Charles and Diana Made...built over the River Dee to speed the...newlywed Prince Charles and Diana, Princess...the footsteps of Charles and Diana and pose...ownership - as is the case with many of our...
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Cause and Effect on the Fox River
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), October 25, 2010
Subjects: Dam removal, Rivers
...the Fox River. The river has changed color. Last week, the Fox River flowed past me sporting...chalky skim milk. The rivers color morph has spawned...vegetation along the river shore these actions...ecological reactions. In the case of the changing palette...Streetlights on the bridge will bring light pollution...behavior come in. Why are bridges built? In part because...
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Red Gate Road Bridge Closer to Reality
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 6, 2010
Subjects: Elevated highways
Red Gate Road Bridge Closer to Reality...Progress on St. Charles dreams of building...bridge over the Fox River are expected to pick...forward with the bridge even without that...This is a classic case of attempting to...money for big dollar bridge projects while trying...
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encyclopedia articles on: Charles River Bridge Case  - 3 results

 
 
1.
Charles River Bridge Case
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CHARLES RIVER BRIDGE CASE decided in 1837 by the U.S. Supreme Court. The Charles River Bridge Company had been granted...eventually be free to the public. The Charles River Bridge Company brought suit against...
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Dartmouth College Case
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CASE decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1819. The legislature...Taney , while not challenging the basic principle, ruled in the Charles River Bridge Case that a legislative charter must be construed narrowly and a corporation...
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Taney, Roger Brooke
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...appointment as Chief Justice. In the Charles River Bridge Case (1837) Taney declared that a...Marshall , in the Dartmouth College Case (1819). Taney felt that the...clearly expressed in the Dred Scott Case (1857). Here he held that slaves...


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