 | United States. Supreme Court - 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 702
...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... | |
 | Richard Peters - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 836
...correctness of this principle, so far as it respects general legislation, cannot be controverted. But, if an act be done under a law, a succeeding legislature cannot nndo it. The past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power. Fletcher v. Peck, 6 Cranch, 87; 2... | |
 | 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 802
...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 cannot undo it. When then a law is in its nature a contract, a repeal of the law cannot divert these rights ; and the... | |
 | Ezra Hall Gillett - 1864 - عدد الصفحات: 642
...power, which muni find its vindication in a train of reasoning not often heard in courts of justice. ... If an act be done under a law, a succeeding Legislature...past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power. . . . Where a law is in its nature a contract, where absolute rights have vested under that contract,... | |
 | Ezra Hall Gillett - 1864 - عدد الصفحات: 668
...power, which muM find its vindication in a train of reasoning not often heard in courts of justice. ... If an act be done under a law, a succeeding Legislature...past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power. . . . Where a law is in its nature a contract, where absolute rights have vested under that contract,... | |
 | 1868 - عدد الصفحات: 828
...legislation is beyond even the power of a convention ; for if an act be done under a law, even a convention cannot undo it. The past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power. And by maintaining that the convention of 1864 did do this, would be, in effect, declaring a hiatus... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 788
...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 devest those rights; and... | |
 | California - 1872 - عدد الصفحات: 738
...was competent to pass; and one Legislature cannot abridge the powers of a succeeding Legislature. But if an act be done under a law, a succeeding Legislature cannot undo it. — Fletcher vs. Peck, 6 Cranch, p. 135. When a law is in its nature a contract, and absolute. rights... | |
 | Wisconsin. Railroad Commissioners' Department - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 856
...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 cannot undo it. When then a law is in its nature a contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights, and the... | |
 | Wisconsin. Railroad Commissioners' Department - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 858
...but as was well said in this court by Chief Justice Marshall in the case of Fletcher rs. Peck: "]f an act be done under a law, a succeeding legislature cannot undo it." So also if a corporation be expressly authorized to mortgage and convey to trustees as security its... | |
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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. 
