 | Nathan Dane - Law - 1824 - 768 pages
...constitutionspectiveTct" a"7 Pass sucn an act> Bn(^ ll }s '" ^Lle ^>rm ("issed : 3. Where as to coniis- a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have cations in vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot devest Coleinau, 84. those rights... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - United States - 1836 - 680 pages
...competent to pass; and one legislature cannot abridge the powers of a succeeding legislature. But if un act be done under a law, a succeeding legislature cannot undo it. Ibid. 1-io. 37. When a law is, in its nature, a contract, arid absolute rights have vested under that... | |
 | James Madison Porter - Charters - 1837 - 72 pages
...correctness of this principle, so far as respects general legislation, can never be controverted But, if an act be done under a law, a succeeding legislature...past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power. Conveyances have been made, those conveyances have vested legal estates, and, if those estates may... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1837 - 696 pages
...contract, or the right of private property." In the case of Flecher v. Peck, 6 Cranch's Rep. the Court say: When, then, a law is in its nature a contract; when...rights have vested under that contract; a repeal of that law cannot divest those rights; and the act of annulling them, if legitimate, is rendered so by... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 696 pages
...correctness of this principle, so far as respects general legislation, can never be controverted. But, if an act be done under a law, a succeeding legislature...past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power. Conveyances have been made, those conveyances have vested legal estates, and, if those estates may... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...cannot impair the obligation of contracts 133-138 may repeal acts passed by a former legislature 134 but if an act be done under a law, a succeeding legislature cannot undo it ... 134 LIBERTY, civil, consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1858 - 764 pages
...this principle," he says, " so far as respects general legislation, can never be controverted. But if an act be done under a law, a succeeding Legislature cannot undo it. When, then, a law is in its nature a contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights; and... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...correctness of this principle, so far as respects general legislation can never be controverted. But, if an act be done under a law, a succeeding legislature...past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power. Conveyances have been made ; those conveyances have vested legal estates ; and, if those estates may... | |
 | California. Legislature. Assembly - 1853 - 1292 pages
...correctness of this principle, so far as respects general legislation, can never be controverted. But, if an act be done under a law, a succeeding Legislature...past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power. Conveyances have been made, — those conveyances have vested legal estates ; and, if those estates... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 754 pages
...correctness of this principle, so far as respects general legislation, can never be controverted. But if an act be done under a law, a succeeding legislature...past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power. Conveyances have been made, those conveyances have vested legal estates, and, if those estates may... | |
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But, if an act be done under a law, a succeeding legislature cannot undo it. The past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power. 
