Reynolds, nor landscapes like Claude Lorraine, nor do all writers write dramas like Shakespeare or fiction like Dickens. Rare genius and extraordinary skill are not transferable, and contracts for their employment are therefore personal, and cannot be assigned. But rare genius and extraordinary skill are not indispensable to the workmanlike digging down of a sand hill …

Cases of assignments by contractors for public works, in which the contracts, and the statutes under which they were made, were held to permit all persons to bid for the contracts, and to execute them through third persons.

It is not a power to tax all the property within the corporation for general purposes, but a power to tax specific property for a specified purpose.

The legislature cannot impose upon the owner of lands a personal obligation to pay an assessment which is a charge upon them.

A contract to perform work on a street was assignable, and if the assignee fulfilled the conditions of the contract, he could enforce it.

Typical personal services contracts are ones that require a specific person to perform the contract with "rare genius and extraordinary skill" and are nontransferable, nonassignable and are therefore personal.

"As a matter of convenience, and in a general sense, we speak of the lands benefited. But, strictly speaking, there is no such thing as benefiting the lands. Lands are not objects that can receive benefits. They are but insensate clods, to which it is not a matter of the slightest consequence whether they are what we call improved or enhanced in value, or not. The owner …

Personal Judgment for Stret Assessment Erroneous.-In an action for a street assessment in San Francisco, it is error to render personal judgment therefor against the owner of the lot assessed

[CITATION] The American legal system: concepts and principles

[BOOK] Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Montana …