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Categories: Constitutional
Definition (1910 Edition)
(Mass.) 227.
(Mass.) 477.
(Mass.) 506; Tucker v. Dabbs, 12
(Mass.) 297, 52 Am. Dec. 711.
(Mass.) 65; State v. Page, 19 Mo. 213.
(Mass.) 145, 54 Am. Dec. 744; Kieffer v. Imhoff, 26 Pa. 438.
(Mass.) 81.—Sovereign right. A right which the state alone, or some of its governmental agencies, can possess, and which it possesses in the character of a sovereign, for the common benefit, and to enable it to carry out its proper functions; distinguished from such “proprieta-
(Mass.) 477.
(Mass.) 506; Tucker v. Dabbs, 12
(Mass.) 297, 52 Am. Dec. 711.
(Mass.) 65; State v. Page, 19 Mo. 213.
(Mass.) 145, 54 Am. Dec. 744; Kieffer v. Imhoff, 26 Pa. 438.
(Mass.) 81.—Sovereign right. A right which the state alone, or some of its governmental agencies, can possess, and which it possesses in the character of a sovereign, for the common benefit, and to enable it to carry out its proper functions; distinguished from such “proprieta-
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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