 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 232 pages
...motives which influenced certain members of the legislature which passed the law.' 2 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. A party to a contract cannot pronounce its own deed invalid, although such... | |
 | John Marshall - Political Science - 1905 - 518 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... | |
 | United States - 1906 - 1350 pages
...Marshall in Fletcher v. Peck (6 Cranch, 87, 135) : When, then, a law Is in Its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law can not devest those rights ; and the act annulling them, If legitimate, Is rendered so by a power... | |
 | James Allen Smith - Constitutional law - 1907 - 442 pages
...a succeeding legislature can not undo it. ... "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 devest those rights ; . . . "It may well be doubted whether the nature of society and of government... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 828 pages
...vested is > 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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 1482 pages
...perfectly well settled in this court, that a legislative act may be a contract, and that whenever it is so, and absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot devest these rights ; and that, if the act of annulling them is legitimate, it is rendered so... | |
 | Richard Theodore Ely - Contracts - 1914 - 550 pages
...obstructed, if this principle be overturned. . . . "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... | |
 | United States. Comptroller of the Treasury - Expenditures, Public - 1914 - 942 pages
...said in Fletcher v. Peck (6 Crunch, 87, 13.5) : " When, then, a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law can not divest those rights." In Pac. Mail SS Co. v. Joliffe (2 Wall., 450) it was said by the Supreme... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 376 pages
...States, in Fletcher vs. Peck, 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 Ferrett vs. Taylor, 9 Cranch, and Winter vs. Jones, 10th Ga.,... | |
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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... 
