 | 1906 - 1350 strani
...attention to the language of Chief Justice 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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1906 - 724 strani
...franchise was granted. It is true, also, that when a law is in the nature of a contract or grant, and absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law *21 VI cannot divest *those rights. But the plaintiffs in this -" case are not corporators, or stockholders... | |
 | James Allen Smith - 1907 - 460 strani
...done under a law, 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... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby, John Archibald Fairlie, Frederic Austin Ogg - 1908 - 718 strani
...of contracts. On the basis of this provision the court held, in the case of Fletcher v. Peck,42 that when a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute...vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. It was the unanimous opinion of the court that the State of Georgia was restrained... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1910 - 830 strani
...consequence of the Impure motives which Influenced certain members of the legislature which passed the law. When a law Is In Its nature a contract, when absolute...contract, a repeal of the law cannot devest those rights. A party to a contract cannot pronounce Its own deed invalid, although that party be a sovereign e ta... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1910 - 828 strani
...authority, still, that they originally vested is > fact, and cannot cease to be a fact. When, then, a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights...contract; a repeal of the law cannot devest those rights; and the act of annulling them, if legitimate, is rendered so by a power applicable to the case of every... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1911 - 1482 strani
...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 by a power applicable... | |
 | Richard Theodore Ely - 1914 - 604 strani
...man and man would be very seriously obstructed, if this principle be overturned. . . . "When, then, a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights...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 applicable... | |
 | James Parker Hall - 1914 - 528 strani
...authority, still, that they originally vested is a fact, and cannot cease to be a fact. When, then, a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights...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 applicable... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - 1914 - 376 strani
...contract, and the Supreme Court of the United States, in Fletcher vs. Peck, 6 Cranch 87, say: "When then, a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights...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., 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... 
