 | 1893 - عدد الصفحات: 1278
...upon which it can rest. It was said by Chief Justice Marshall in Fletcher v. Peck, 6 Cranch, 87—135: "If an act be done under a law, a succeeding legislature...most absolute power. * * * When, then, a law is in the nature of a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - 1893 - عدد الصفحات: 734
...the Constitution. New Jersey r. Wilson, 7 Cranch, 164; Fletcher v. Peck, 6 id. 87. Milt-shall, CJ : " When, then, a law is in its nature a contract : when absolute rights have vested under the contract, — a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights: and the act of annulling them, if... | |
 | James Bradley Thayer - 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 470
...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... | |
 | Washington (State). Supreme Court, Eugene Genroy Kreider - 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 806
...Cranch, 87, is a long and exceedingly interesting case. It is true that the court there decided that when a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested in that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. This doctrine, we take it, will not... | |
 | Henry Osborn Taylor - 1898 - عدد الصفحات: 978
...correctness of this principle, so far as affects 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 be... | |
 | Lawrence Boyd Evans - 1898 - عدد الصفحات: 702
...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 - 1901 - عدد الصفحات: 1698
...which that constitutional provision rests, stated by Chief Justice Marshall in that case, when he said: "When, then, a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute [298] rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot devest those rights; and the... | |
 | John Marshall - 1903 - عدد الصفحات: 828
...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 be... | |
 | John Marshall - 1903 - عدد الصفحات: 832
...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 be... | |
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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. 
