 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia - 1914 - 374 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.' " And at page 49 the court said : " It is obvious that this reserved... | |
 | James Parker Hall - Constitutional law - 1914 - 528 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... | |
 | Reinhold Klotz - German language - 1916 - 706 pages
...legislature with respect to vested rights." "When a law is in its nature a contract," said Marshall, "when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights."7' A legislative act which attempted to interfere with the property rights... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 1919 - 704 pages
...if the State should deny that it was a fact. "When, then, a law is in its nature a contract, where absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights." If it can, such a power is "applicable to the case of every individual... | |
 | Charles William Bacon, Franklyn Stanley Morse - Common law - 1924 - 424 pages
...enact. In his opinion, Chief Justice Marshall said: When ... a law is in the nature of a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot devest those rights. . . . Georgia cannot be viewed as a single, unconnected, sovereign power,... | |
 | Samuel Guyton McLendon - Public lands - 1924 - 208 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 devest those rights. "A party to a contract cannot pronounce its own deed invalid, although... | |
 | Lawrence Boyd Evans - Constitutional law - 1925 - 1436 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 rcnderedjso by.a power... | |
 | Clark Howell - History - 1926 - 774 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - Enemy property - 1926 - 1456 pages
...not 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 can not divest those rights. * * * Now, gentlemen, the rights which this treaty gave were given to... | |
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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... 
