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Caption: Booklet - UI Charter of Freedom (1942)
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V. IbliC corporations, such as cities and Milages, school districts, townships, counties, the I Diversities of Oxford and Cambridge, have from time immemorial and under the common law exercised the right to em em torney General, as counsel for the Crown or the State, moved against them in the exercise of the right of visitation for violations of the law, nonuser, or acts beyond their charter powers. (a) The legal and historical fact is that the Attorney General of England representative them. The same is true Attorney 1 Dillon, Municipal Corporations, (3d ed i pp. 10, 11, 13, 14. Opinions of the Attorney General, 1939. p. 253. 565. People v. Miner, 2 Lans. (N. Y., 1868) 396. Fairlie, Law Departments and Law Officers m American Governments, 36 Mich L Rev 907 (1930). .***•* Spalding v. People, 172 111. 40, 49-50. (b) The Attorney General of England on h»h*M f *i Crown, acted against all chartered c o r p o r a i o £ l , private, in the exercise of the p o w e r T v Tslt^ t s ^ K? *ha ir;„„ w h i c h i s conchmivJ Zli I .. ation vested in ,, wmen is conclusive against the claim that at a1 common law he was their counsel. ? i f £° «es 480, 4 8 1 ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Statutes of 13 Eliz., C. 29. 1 k ne Commenta / Chicago, 256 111. 558 (1st ed ) 4 70
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