 | Wisconsin. Railroad Commissioners' Department - 1875 - 858 Seiten
...law a succeeding legislature cannot undo it. When then a law is in its nature a contract, a repesil of the law cannot divest those rights, and the act...legitimate, is rendered so by a power applicable to every individual in the community." And in the same opinion he says: "Whatever respect might have been... | |
 | Wisconsin - 1876 - 1184 Seiten
...legislature cannot undo it. When then a law is in its nature a contract, a repeal of the law cnnnot divest those rights, and the act of annulling them,...legitimate, is rendered so by a power applicable to every individual in the community." And in the same opinion he says: "Whatever respect might have been... | |
 | Charles Hodge - 1879 - 556 Seiten
...made and rights vested under the rule which they themselves had made? Again, the judge says, " When a law is, in its nature a contract, when absolute...contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights." Let us suppose, for illustration, that Congress should pass a law which is in fact unconstitutional,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1881 - 788 Seiten
...legislature cannot undo it. When, then, a law is in its nature a contract, a repeal of the law cannot devest those rights ; and the act of annulling them, if legitimate, is rendered BO by a power applicable to the case of every individual in the community." And in another part of... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1882 - 866 Seiten
...seized by the sovereign authority, still, that they originally vested is a fact, and cannot cease to be a fact. When, then, a law is in its nature a contract,...vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot devest those rights: and the act of annulling (hem. if legitimate, is rendered so bv a power applicable... | |
 | Allan Bowie Magruder - 1885 - 324 Seiten
...seized by the sovereign authority, still that they originally vested is a fact, and cannot cease to be a fact. When, then, a law is in its nature a contract,...contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. . . . The validity of this rescinding act, then, might be doubted, were Georgia a single sovereign... | |
 | Allan Bowie Magruder - 1885 - 308 Seiten
...by the sov- ) ereign authority, still that they originally vested is a fact, and cannot cease to be a fact. When, then, a law is in its nature a contract,...contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. . . . The validity of this rescinding act, then, might be doubted, were Georgia a single sovereign... | |
 | 1885 - 892 Seiten
...seized by the sovereign authority, still that they originally vested is a fact, and cannot cease to be a fact. When, then, a law is in its nature a contract,...vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot devest those rights; and the act of annulling them, if legitimate, is rendered so by a power applicable... | |
 | Allan Bowie Magruder - 1885 - 326 Seiten
...authority, still that they originally vested is a fact, and cannot cease to be a fact. When, then, a lair is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights...contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. . . . The validity of this rescinding act, then, might be doubted, were Georgia a single sovereign... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1886 - 1020 Seiten
...provision rests, stated by Chief Justice Marshall [298] in that case, when he said: "When, then, a low is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights...vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot devest those rights; and the act of annulling them, if legitimate, is rendered so by a power applicable... | |
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When, then, a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot devest those rights ; and the act of annulling them if legitimate, is rendered so by a power applicable to the case of every... 
