 | Joseph Gales - United States - 1854 - 780 pages
...purchasers without notice for a valuable consideration." " When a law is in its nature a contract whereby absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest these rights." " The contract between Georgia and the purchasers was executed by the... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1858 - 732 pages
...1795, and rescind the sale made under it. * The court declared, that when a law was in its nature *414 a contract, and absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law could not divest those rights, nor annihilate or impair the title so acquired. A grant was a contract... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1859 - 674 pages
...subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress. 1 "Where a law is in its nature a contract, where absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law can not divest those rights. — Fletcher vs. Peck, 6 Cranch, 88. A party to a contract can not pronounce... | |
 | Ezra Hall Gillett - Presbyterian Church - 1864 - 632 pages
...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, a repeal of the law cannot divest these rights ; and the act of annulling them, if legitimate, is rendered so by a power... | |
 | Ezra Hall Gillett - Presbyterian Church - 1864 - 624 pages
...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, a repeal of the law cannot divest these rights ; and the act of annulling them, if legitimate, is rendered so by a power... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1866 - 724 pages
...constitutionally repeal the act of 1795, and rescind the sale made under it. * 414 * The court declared, that when a law was in its nature a contract, and...have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law could not devest those rights, nor annihilate or impair the title so acquired. A grant was a contract... | |
 | Law - 1868 - 894 pages
...could constitutionally repeal the Act of 1795, and rescind the sale made under it. The court declared that when a law was in its nature a contract, and...have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law could not divest those rights, nor annihilate or impair the title so acquired. A grant was a contract... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 820 pages
...the franchise was granted. It is true, also, that when a law is in the nature of a contract or grant, and absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot devest * those [ * 215 ] rights. But the plaintiffs in this case are not corporators, or stockholders... | |
 | California - California - 1872 - 732 pages
...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 have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. — Id. A legislative grant and confirmation vests an indefeasable, irrevocable... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Greenbacks - 1872 - 192 pages
...certain members of the legislature, which passed the law. When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. A party to a contract cannot pronounce its own deed invalid, although that... | |
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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 divest those rights... 
