dillon’s rule

Dillon’s rule. The doctrine that a unit of local government may exercise only those powers that the state expressly grants to it, the powers necessarily and fairly implied from that grant, and the powers that are indispensable to the existence of the unit of local government. • For the origins of this rule, see 1 John F. Dillon, The Law of Municipal Corporations § 89, at 115 (3d ed. 1881). [Cases: Municipal Corporations 57. C.J.S. Municipal Corporations §§ 104, 106, 108, 110–115, 117–118, 122, 137–138, 143, 145–146.]

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词条贡献者

资深译员Ting，亚洲顶尖法学院国际贸易专业，擅长翻译各类与国际贸易委员会调查程序相关的法律文件。