...having no special application to Georgia. It held that when a law is in its nature a contract, and when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law can not divest those rights. It further observed that the Constitution of the United States especially...

...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...under that contract — a repeal of the law cannot devest those rights ; and the Act annulling them, if legitimate, is rendered so by a power applicable...

...settled in this court, that j a legislative act may be a contract, and that whenever it is so, and absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot devest these rights; and that, if the act of annulling them is legitimate, it is rendered so by a power...

...vested is a fact, and cannot cease to be a fact. When, then, a law is in the nature of a contract, and absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights." It would seem to be quite obvious that the power in the existing Legislature, by virtue of a reservation...

...still, that they originally vested is a fact, and cannot cease to be a fact When, then, a law which is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights...contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights ; * * * "It may well be doubted whether the nature of society and of government does not prescribe...

...Fletcher v. Peck that a law of Georgia repealing former statutes, which had conveyed land, was invalid. "When, then, a law is in its nature a contract, when...vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot devest these rights." M As indicated above, the appeal to the higher law was originally a very important...

...Georgia law authorizing the land grant to that of a contract. "When, then, a law is in the nature of a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot devest those rights." Two important points are stressed here: 1) The Georgia law, as a contract, could...

...that a subsequent legislature cannot repeal it. Fletcher v. Peck, supra, 136 ("When, then, a law 11 in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have...a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.'} The contracts dame itself inhibits only the actions of the States. With respect to the Federal Government's...

...nibssqutnt legislature cannot repeal it. Fletcher v. Peck, supra, 136 ("When, then, a law is in iU nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot diveit those rights.") The contracts clause itielf inhibit! only the actions of the States. With retptct...

...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 (sic) those rights. The powers of one legislature to repeal or amend the acts of the preceding...