 | 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
...of property is entitled to a reasonable compensation for its use, even though it be clothed with a public interest, and that what is reasonable is a...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... | |
 | Illinois - 1877 - 182 pages
...establish the maximum of charge, as one of the means of regulation, is implied. In fact, the common law rule, which requires the charge to be reasonable,...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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1880 - 426 pages
...forced sale on execution, and exemption from jury duty, are all within the principle. 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 common law, cannot be taken away without due... | |
 | Edward Lillie Pierce - Railroad law - 1881 - 684 pages
...courts must determine what is reasonable. The controlling fact is the power to regulate at all. . . . But a mere common-law regulation of trade or business...no vested interest, in any rule of the common law. . . . To limit the rate of charge for services rendered in a public employment, or for the use of property... | |
 | Ohio State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1914 - 294 pages
...page 50, overruled the contention that such an act violated the Federal Constitution, and said: — "A person has no property, no vested interest, in any rule of the common law. This is only one of the forms of municipal law, and is no more sacred than any other." When I read... | |
 | David Rorer - Railroad law - 1884 - 996 pages
...establish the maximum of charge, as one of the means of regulation, is implied. In fact, tiie common law rule, which requires the charge to be reasonable,...property which have been created by the common law can not be taken away without due process, but the law itself, ai a rule of conduct, may be changed... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 732 pages
...court. In Munn v. Illinois, 94 US 113-184, the chief justice, delivering the opinion of the court, said: "A person has no property, no vested interest, in...municipal law, and is no more sacred than any other. Bights of property which have been created by the common law cannot be taken'away without due process;... | |
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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, unless prevented by constitutional limitations.... 
