 | Kermit L. Hall - History - 1999 - 450 pages
...to the natural law doctrine of vested rights: when an agreement was "in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights" (p. 134). He concluded that "either by principles which are common to our... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - Philosophy - 2003 - 852 pages
...the will of the Legislature so to exert it. ... When, then, a law is in its nature a contract, when q cannot devest those rights; and the act of annulling them, if legitimate, is rendered so by a power... | |
 | Joseph Francis Menez, John R. Vile - Law - 2004 - 660 pages
...law, a succeeding legislature cannot undo it. ... 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... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 701 pages
...buy and sell corruption in the gross, (John Randolph.) When a law is in its nature & contract. when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. The people can act only by their agents and, within the powers conferred... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 554 pages
...be so plain, that the decision in Diggs versus Wolcott, the grounds of which are not stated, ought to be of great weight. A class of important cases...388. Under the same clause decisions have been made Delating to the state bankrupt laws, and finally, ' In the great case of Dartmouth College versus Woodward,... | |
 | 162 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 (sic) those rights. Fletcher, 10 US at 135 (emphases added). Such legislative "acts"... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1858 - 802 pages
...description throughout the state. — Id.. 436. • 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, 6Crancb, 88. A party to a contract can not pronounce... | |
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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... 
