 A person has no property, no vested interest, in any rule of 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 common law cannot be taken away without...  Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan - Page 14by Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, James M. Reasoner, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, Richard W. Cooper - 1916Full 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 - 1891 - 782 pages
...or forego the use. But a mere common-law regulation of trade or business may be changed by statute. A person has no property, no vested interest, in any...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... | |
 | 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
...not deprive railroad corporations of the equal protection of the laws. 5. SAME — VESTED INTERESTS. A person has no property, no vested interest in any rule of the 1As to servant's assumption of risk of master's breach of statutory duty, see notes in 6 LRA (NS) 981;... | |
 | Nebraska. Supreme Court, David Allen Campbell, Guy Ashton Brown, Lorenzo Crounse, Walter Alber Leese, Lee Herdmen, Henry Clay Lindsay, Henry Paxon Stoddart - Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 1050 pages
...conditions, or other reasons, it may become inrtt'ectual for the preservation of public or private rights. "A person has no property, no vested interest, in any rule of the common law." Munn r>. Ill'inm*. 94 F. 8., 113, 134. Neither is there such a thing as a vested right in any particular... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1877 - 526 pages
...or forego the use. But a mere common-law regulation of trade or business may bo changed by statute. A person has no property, no vested interest in any...as a rule of conduct, may be changed at the will, or even at the whim, of the legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitations. Indeed, the... | |
 | Law - 1877 - 558 pages
...or forego the use. But a mere common-law regulation of trade or business may be changed by statute. A person has no property, no vested interest in any...itself as a rule of conduct may be changed at the will or even at the whim of the legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitations. Indeed, the... | |
 | Illinois - 1877 - 182 pages
...or forego the use. But a mere common-law regulation of trade or business may be changed by statute. A person has no property, no vested interest in any rule of the common law. That is only one of the fojms of municipal law, and is no more sacred than any other. Kights of property which have been created... | |
 | Pacific railroads - 1878 - 800 pages
...these earnings among the stockholders of this corporation as against the creditors. That is only oue of the forms of municipal law, and is no more, sacred...process ; but the law itself, as a rule of conduct, mav be changed at the will, or even at the whim, of the Legislature, unless prevented by constitutional... | |
 | American Bar Association - Law - 1887 - 460 pages
...forego the use." "But a mere common law regulation of trade or business may be changed by statute. A person has no property, no vested interest in any...as a rule of conduct, may be changed at the will, or even at the whim of the Legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitations. Indeed, the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 1902 pages
...in a prosecution by a state for murder; and in Munn v. Illinois, 94 US 115, the chief justice says : "A person has no property, no vested interest, in...of the common law. That is only one of the forms of the municipal law, and is no more sacred than any other. * * The law itself, as a rule of conduct,... | |
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