Lincoln successfully argued that the railroad company was not bound by its original charter in existence at the time of Barret's pledge ; the charter was amended in the public interest to provide a newer, superior, and less expensive route, and the corporation retained the right to demand Barret's payment.

The original charter of the college stated:

The club is a charter member of the American League, one of four clubs ( with the Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Indians ) still located in its original city.

The original charter of Rice Institute dictated that the university admit and educate, tuition-free, " the white inhabitants of Houston, and the state of Texas ".

From 1960 to 1996, the team was known as the Houston Oilers, an original charter member of the American Football League ( AFL ).

The Institute's charter was signed by all the original trustees, except for Rice, on May 18, 1891, and certified by the State of Texas the following day.

Established in 1834 and having operated continuously since then, it is the oldest US railroad still operating under its original name and charter.

The LIRR is one of the few railroads that has survived as an intact company from its original charter to the present day.

The Institute's original charter was authorized by the state legislature on March 1, 1850, and the school opened on November 27, 1850 despite the fact that the building was not yet completed.

He is known to have revoked a charter of Egbert's on the grounds that " it was wrong that his thegn should have presumed to give land allotted to him by his lord into the power of another without his witness ", but the date of Egbert's original grant is unknown, as is the date of Offa's revocation of it.

The Supreme Court of Virginia ruled that the original crown charter provided the authority for the corporation's Board of Visitors to make changes including the reorganization.

The original charter has been lost.

This ' Ward ' was constituted of the original ' Guildable Manor ' and the properties previously held by the church, under a charter of Edward VI, latterly called the ' King's Manor ' and ' Great Liberty ' manor.

From the original alt. zines charter: " alt. zines is a place for reviews of zines, announcements of new zines, tips on how to make zines, discussions of the culture of zines, news about zines, specific zines and related stuff.

The original seven charter teams were the Salem Senators, Eugene Emeralds, Yakima Bears, Spokane Indians, Tri-City Braves, Wenatchee Chiefs, and the Lewiston Broncs.

The winning choice was Nuggets, in honor of the original Nuggets team who played in Denver from 1948 – 50, the last year as a charter member of the NBA.

The most notable were the SportsChannel networks, which went on the air in 1976 with the original SportsChannel ( now MSG Plus ) and later branched out into Chicago and Florida ; Prime Network, which went on the air in 1983 with the charter member being Home Sports and Entertainment ( now FSN Southwest ) and later branched out onto the West Coast as " Prime Sports "; and SportSouth, the RSN operated by Turner Broadcasting.

The expansions and additions from the original charter members were in 1985 ( Monmouth University ), 1989 ( Mount St. Mary's University ), 1992 ( Rider University, who left in 1997 ), 1997 ( Central Connecticut State University ), 1998 ( Quinnipiac University and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County who left in 2003 ), 1999 ( Sacred Heart University ) and 2008 ( Bryant University ).

The original charter specified the establishment both of the college, and of an institution called the Queen's College Grammar School, intended to be a preparatory school affiliated and governed by the college.

The surveyors also extended the boundary line to run between Pennsylvania and colonial western Virginia ( which became West Virginia during the American Civil War, on June 20, 1863 ), though this was contrary to their original charter ; this extension of the line was only confirmed later ( see Yohogania County for details ).

Further evidence of Æthelbald's power, or at least his titles, is provided by an important charter of 736, the Ismere Diploma, which survives in a contemporary ( and possibly original ) copy.

The Dukedom became extinct after Henry VI, as the original charter restricted it to ' heirs male '.

It was named for John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, who as heir to one of the eight original Lords Proprietors of the Province of Carolina, claimed one eighth of the land granted in the charter of 1665.

Although he did not attend any celebrated schools or universities, he was a master of Greek and Hebrew and could read the Bible in the original.

For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

Laudably enough, it is offering classics and off-beat imports, but last week only one U.S. original was on the boards, Robert D. Hock's stunning Civil War work, Borak.

Stowey Rummel was internationally famous, a crafter of a genuine Americana in foreign eyes, an original designer whose inventive childishness with steel and concrete was made even more believably sincere by his personality.

He claims that he was denied due process of law in violation of the Fifth Amendment, because ( 1 ) at a hearing before a hearing officer of the Department of Justice, he was not permitted to rebut statements attributed to him by the local board, and ( 2 ) at the trial, he was denied the right to have the hearing officer's report and the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as to his claim.

Petitioner was not entitled, either in the administrative hearing at the Department of Justice or at his trial, to inspect the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, since he was furnished a resume of it, did not challenge its accuracy, and showed no particular need for the original report.

He says that he was not permitted to rebut before the hearing officer statements attributed to him by the local board, and, further, that he was denied at trial the right to have the Department of Justice hearing officer's report and the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as to his claim -- all in violation of the Fifth Amendment.

That Prokofieff's harmonies and forms sometimes seem professionally routine to our ears, may or may not indicate that he was less of an `` original '' than we prefer to believe.

This original capsule contained a battery and a transistor oscillator and was about 1 cm. in diameter.

when the insoluble fraction was suspended in a volume of saline equal to that of the original serum sample, no complete antibody activity could be detected.

Approximately ten days after the questionnaire was mailed, a follow-up airmail postcard was sent to each of the original names.

In parts a repeated sponging was needed, but everywhere we found that water alone was enough to restore the original brightness.

Down in Concord, New Hampshire, was a flier in the right place at the right time: Robert S. Fogg, a native New Englander, had been a World War 1, flying instructor, barnstormer, and one of the original planners of the Concord Airport.

`` To be creative is to have the ability to cause to exist -- to produce where nothing was before -- to bring forth an original production of human intelligence or power ''.

What remained lacked the original verve but it was at least dignified, as befitting the tragic circumstances.

Scholarship on these texts naturally divides itself into two periods, before and after the " Qin Fire ", when many of the original texts, especially those of Confucianism, were burned in a political purge.

The Sibyl then burned three more books and again offered Tarquin the three remaining Sibylline Books at the original price.

What wonder that a fiery rage still burned within his breast and that he should seek every opportunity of obtaining vengeance upon his natural enemies .</ br >< p > The proud spirit of the original owners of these vast prairies inherited through centuries of fierce and bloody wars for their possession, lingered last in the bosom of Sitting Bull.

The original napalm usually burned for 15 to 30 seconds while napalm B can burn for up to 10 minutes.

All of his original works were burned.

The film was lost for many years because the original print of the film burned in a fire and all copies were reported lost, destroyed, or worn away, but a copy of the film with French subtitles was found in the permanent collection of the Cinémathèque Française in Paris.

The original capitol was replaced in 1863 and the second capitol burned in 1904.

After Sarpsborg was burned to the ground during the Northern Seven Years ' War, the ruling king, Frederik II of Denmark, decided by royal decree to rebuild the city south of the original location.

The original building was burned down by a fire caused by lightning in 1889.

It was a gift from the American people to Leuven after World War I during which the Germans burned down the original library, causing much outrage in the US.

Erath ’ s original 1866 wooden courthouse burned to the ground, destroying county documents along with it.

Platte County Courthouse in Platte City was built after the original courthouse was burned with the rest of Platte City during the American Civil War.

The fair's original grandstand burned in 1960 and the county purchased a new grandstand from the minor league baseball team at Parkway Field in Louisville, Kentucky.

He burned wood, and crediting the lower mass of the ashes compared to the original wood to the leaving of the vital force, because the wood had been killed in the process of burning.

The original station burned in 1908 and was replaced the following year by the station that is now the City's museum.

It was about this time that the original school burned down and a new building was constructed.

The original building burned in 1932 and was replaced by the southernmost portion of the current one.

It burned in the 1970 fire and was rebuilt using many of the original tiles.

* The Brick Schoolhouse, second construction completed in 1825 after original burned, it is one of the four remaining district schoolhouses in Coventry and was used until 1954.

In 1947, the original school building serving the white population burned to the ground.

The original Enigma school building was still in use as part of the elementary school when it burned in October 1973.

In 1871, this original church was struck by lightning and burned to the ground.

In 1905 a large part of downtown burned and in 1917 the original railroad station went up in flames.

The original house, " Todd's Inheritance ", was burned by the British during the War of 1812 Battle of North Point.