 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...  Albany Law Journal - Page 2721884Full 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
...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...itself, as a rule of conduct, may be changed at the will * * * of the legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitations. Indeed, the great office... | |
 | 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
...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...itself, as a rule of conduct, may be changed at the will * * * of the legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitations. Indeed, the great office... | |
 | 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
...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 beeu created by the common law cannot be taken away without due process; but the law itself, as a rule... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 644 pages
...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...itself, as a rule of conduct, may be changed at the will * * * of the legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitations. Indeed, the great office... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 706 pages
...held in Mondou v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Rd. Co., 223 US, 1, where it is said, at page 50: "The law itself, as a rule of conduct, may be changed at the will * * * of the legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitations. Indeed, the great office... | |
 | Law - 1877 - 558 pages
...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...great office of statutes is to remedy defects in the commun law as they are developed, and to adapt it to the changes of time and circumstances. To limit... | |
 | Pacific railroads - 1878 - 800 pages
...stockholders of this corporation as against the creditors. That is only oue of the forms of municipal law, and is no more, sacred than any other. Rights of property...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... | |
 | 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...legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitations." — Munn v. Illinois, 94 US Rep. 113, 134. tion from military duty, granted by the law after full performance... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 1902 pages
...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, may be changed at the will or ;ven the mere whim of the legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitations." And in Walker... | |
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