 | 1874 - 900 pages
...were entitled to as much immunity from confiscation and intrusion for all coming time. 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, nor annihilate or impair a title acquired under the law. A grant is a contract... | |
 | Pacific railroads - 1878 - 800 pages
...vested is a fact, and cannot cease to be a fact. . 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 ; and the act of annulling them, if legitimate, is rendered so by a power... | |
 | Charles Hodge - Church polity - 1879 - 556 pages
...which they themselves had made? Again, the judge says, " 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." Let us suppose, for illustration, that Congress should pass a law which... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - Electronic books - 1882 - 760 pages
...that a f grant of lands is a contract within the meaning of the Constitution, and that wlmn a State law was in its nature a contract, and absolute rights have vested under it, a repeal of the law could not divest these rights, or impair the title so acquired. " Since then,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 866 pages
...vested is a fact, and cannot cease to be a fact. 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 (hem. if legitimate, is rendered so bv a power... | |
 | Allan Bowie Magruder - Biography & Autobiography - 1885 - 308 pages
...vested is a fact, and cannot cease to be a fact. 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. . . . The validity of this rescinding act, then, might be doubted, were... | |
 | Allan Bowie Magruder - Biography & Autobiography - 1885 - 312 pages
...vested is a fact, and cannot cease to be a fact. 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. . . . The validity of this rescinding act, then, might be doubted, were... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 792 pages
...shall in that case, when he said, pages 135-6: " When, then, a law fs in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights; and the act of annulling them, if legitimate, is rendered so by a power... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 892 pages
...vested is a fact, and cannot cease to be a fact. 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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 888 pages
...States, in Fletcher v. Peek, 6 Cranch, 87, say: " 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"; see also Terrell v. Taylor, 9 Id. 43, and Winter v. Jones, 10 Ga. 190... | |
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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... 
