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Registration. "This is not a privilege, as of carrying on a business of occupation, but a privilege of exercising a right not a natural right, the right of registration." State ex rel. Hauk v. American Trust Co., 141 Tenn. 243, 208 S.W. 611, 613 (1919). Foster & Creighton Co. v. Graham, 285 S.W. 570 (Tenn.), 47 A.L.R. 971, 976.





Privilege (Lat. Privilegium, from private lex, private law), a special ordinance or regulation, in virtue of which an individual or a class enjoys certain immunities or rights from or beyond the common provisions of the general law of the community. Chambers Encyclopedia, Vol. VI (1893).



Lex, legi, f. [c.f. lego]. 1. Lit. a. a contract, agreement, stipulation, condition: Pl., Ter.: dicere. Hor., Liv.: in mancipi lego, Cic. Of conditions of peace: pacis, Verg,: leges iungere, Verg.: pax data Philippo in leges est, Liv. Latin-English. Thus a tax on the use of carriages [vehicles] was imposed in some of the colonies even prior to the Revolution, and a similar tax imposed by the United States in 1794 was sustained after much discussion as a valid excise. Hylton v. United States, 3 Dall. 171, 1 U.S. (L.ed) 556. [***] The license tax on automobiles, from which almost every state derives a substantial revenue, are a modern example of the same sort of [excise] tax. In re Schuler, 167 Cal. 282, 139 Pac. 685, Ann. Cas. 1915C 706, and note; Kane v. State, 81 N.J.L. 594, 80 Atl. 453, Ann. Cas. 1912D 237, L.R.A. 1917B 553. 26 R.C.L. (Ruling Case Law), 236.



Motor Vehicles. 168.011. Definitions . Subd. 2. "Application for registration" shall have the same meaning as "listing for taxation," and when a motor vehicle is registered it is also listed. Minnesota Statutes Annotated (1986).





Traffic ticket. "A traffic 'ticket' [is] an informal complaint charging a crime." People v. Flynn, 375 Ill. 366, 31 N.E. 2d 591 (1941). The Sufficiency of Traffic Tickets as Criminal Complaints



Speeding is a crime unknown at common law. (*"The court stated that such an act [i.e. speeding] was not a crime at common law, but has become such by statutory enactment and therefore, should so be charged.") * The Sufficiency of Traffic Tickets as Criminal Complaints, 8 De Paul Law Review 405, 406, 407 (1959).



"An information must charge a crime. In the case before us [i.e., speeding] the offense is purely statutory. At common law such an act [i.e., speeding] was not a criminal offense. A crime must be charged in the name of the statute." People v. Perlman (1957) 145 N.E.2d 763, 767, 15 Ill.App.2d 239.



Personal right of passage. "Excepting the personal right of passage, any use of the highway is a special and extraordinary use which, when allowed, is a privilege---not a vested right---and subject to regulation as such. Thus the transportation of persons as passengers or of their goods as freight is an extraordinary use and is therefore subject to such regulations as may be called for by the public safety and convenience and the protection of the highways from damage." @1 Tex Jur 2d (1956). Highways, 235, p. 765.



Certificate of Title. "A title for a motor vehicle is a security under 18 U.S.C. 2314 and 2315. A motor vehicle is also a security under the new counterfeiting provision in 18 U.S.C. 513 as a motor vehicle title is an instrument issued by a state evidencing ownership of goods, wares or merchandise. (see 18 U.S.C. 513 (c) (3) ( B ))." United States Attorneys Manual, p. 5, 9-61.144, Vol. 2, July 1, 1992.