 ... of the legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitations. Indeed, the great office of statutes is to remedy defects in the common law as they are developed, and to adapt it to the changes of time and circumstances.  The New York Supplement - Page 3721915Full view - About this book
 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 840 pages
...States held that a person has no property or vested interest in any rule of common law, and that while rights of property which have been created by the...common law cannot be taken away without due process, yet the law itself as a rule of conduct may be changed at the will of the legislature, unless prevented... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 804 pages
...the common law. That is only one of the forms of municipal law, and is no more sacred than any other. Rights of property which have been created by the...law cannot be taken away without due process ; but the law itself, as a rule of conduct, may be changed at the will * * * of the legislature, unless prevented... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 804 pages
...the common law. That is only one of the forms of municipal law, and is no more sacred than any other. Rights of property which have been created by the...law cannot be taken away without due process; but the law itself, as a rule of conduct, may be changed at the will * * * of the legislature, unless prevented... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 782 pages
...the forms of municipal law. and is no more sacred than any other. Rights of property which have beeu created by the common law cannot be taken away without due process; but the law itself, as a rule of conduct, may be changed at the will, or even at the whim, of the legislature,... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 644 pages
...the common law. That is only one of the forms of municipal law, and is no more sacred than any other. Rights of property which have been created by the...law cannot be taken away without due process; but the law itself, as a rule of conduct, may be changed at the will * * * of the legislature, unless prevented... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1877 - 526 pages
...the common law. That is only one of the forms of municipal law, and is no more sacred than any other. Rights of property which have been created by the...law cannot be taken away without due process, but the law itself, as a rule of conduct, may be changed at the will, or even at the whim, of the legislature,... | |
 | Law - 1877 - 558 pages
...the common law. That is only one of the forms of municipal law, and is no more sacred than any other. Rights of property which have been created by the...law cannot be taken away without due process, but the law itself as a rule of conduct may be changed at the will or even at the whim of the legislature,... | |
 | Pacific railroads - 1878 - 800 pages
...the creditors. That is only oue of the forms of municipal law, and is no more, sacred than any other. Rights of property which have been created by the...law cannot be taken away without due process ; but the law itself, as a rule of conduct, mav be changed at the will, or even at the whim, of the Legislature,... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1880 - 426 pages
...Even an exemp1 " A person has no property, no vested interest, in any rule of the common law. . . . Rights of property, which have been created by the...law, cannot be taken away without due process ; but the law itself as a rule of conduct may be changed at the will, or even at the whim, of the legislature,... | |
 | Ohio State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1914 - 294 pages
...wondered if the judge who wrote that was a disciple of our South American Explorer Friend. (Laughter.) "Rights of property which have been created by the...common law cannot be taken away without due process of law, but the law itself, as a rule of conduct may be changed at the will of the legislature unless... | |
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