 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Hiram Edward Sickels - Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 820 pages
...vested is a fact, and cannot cease to be a fact. AVhen, then, a law is in the nature of a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights." It would seem to be quite obvious that a power existing in the legislature... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - Railroad law - 1889 - 768 pages
...vested is a fact, and cannot cease to be a fact. 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 divest those rights." It would seem to be quite obvious that a power existing in the legislature... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 990 pages
...vested is a fact, and cannot cease to be a fact. 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 divest those rights." It would seem to be quite obvious that a power existing in the legislature... | |
 | Hawaii. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 844 pages
...cannot be recalled by the most absolute power. * * * 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 these rights." Fletcher r«. Peck, 6 Cranch, 87-148. But without deciding whether the... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Baker - Constitutional law - 1891 - 378 pages
...When cannot be divested — Not when contract exists.— 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. Fletcher v. Peck, 0 Cranch, (<7. 98. Annulling conveyances.— A law annulling... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 1278 pages
...be recalled by the 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 cannot divest those rights." Cited with approval in People v. O'Brien, 111 NY 48, 18 NE Rep. 692. In... | |
 | James Bradley Thayer - Constitutional law - 1894 - 470 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... | |
 | Lawrence Boyd Evans - Constitutional law - 1898 - 702 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... | |
 | Horace La Fayette Wilgus - Corporation law - 1902 - 1056 pages
...vested is a fact, and can not cease to be a fact. When, then, a law is in the nature of a contract, when absolute rights have vested -under that contract, a repeal of the law can not divest those rights." It would seem to be quite obvious that a power existing in the legislature... | |
 | American Historical Association - Electronic journals - 1902 - 398 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
