 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 994 pages
...Co., 223 US 1, where it is said, at page 50, 32 Sup. Ct. 109. 175 (56 L. Ed. 327, 38 LRA [NS] 44). "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 reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1134 pages
...created by the common law cannot be taken self, as a rule of conduct, may be changed at the will * * * of the Legislature, unless prevented by constitutional...adapt it to the changes of time and circumstances.' Munn v. Illinois, 94 US 113, 134 [24 L. Ed. 77J ; Martin v. Pittsburg & Lake Erie R. R, Co., 203 U.... | |
 | Chicago and Alton Railroad Company - Railroads - 1886 - 470 pages
...other member of that Court. But the Chief Justice has said in the case of Munn vs. Illinois: "That the great office of statutes "is to remedy defects..."adapt it to the changes of time and circumstances." That Court has repeatedly held that under the common law, a railroad company would have authority to... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 1170 pages
...sncred than any other. Rights of property which have been 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 * * * of the Legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitations. Indeed, the great office... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1908 - 714 pages
...forego the use. " But a mere common law regulation of trade or business may be changed by statute. . . . Indeed, the great office of statutes is to remedy...changes of time and circumstances. To limit the rate or charge for services rendered in a public employment, or for the use of property in which the public... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 1294 pages
...sacred than any other. Rights of property which have been created by the common law cannot be taken away without due process; but the law itself, as a...Legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitations." This certainly does not mean that any and every rule of the common law can be changed at the whim of... | |
 | John Innes Clark Hare - Constitutional law - 1888 - 764 pages
...sacred than any other. Rights of property which have been 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 the whim, of the legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitations. Indeed, the great office... | |
 | New York (State). Courts, Francis Blaine Delehanty (Reporter), Austin B. Griffin (Reporter), Robert George Scherer (Reporter), Edward Jordan Dimock (Reporter), Joseph Albert Lawson (Reporter), Charles Cook Lester (Reporter), William Van Rensselaer Erving (Reporter), Louis J. Rezzemini (Reporter) - Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 794 pages
...sacred than any other. Rights of property which have been created by the common law cannot be taken away without due process, but the law itself, as a...legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitations." This certainly does not mean that any and every rule of the common law can be changed at the whim of... | |
 | John Downey Works - Jurisdiction - 1894 - 956 pages
...have been created by the common law can not he taken away without due process; but the law itself, ns a rule of conduct, may be changed at the will, or...the legislature, unless prevented by constitutional It will be presumed, however, that it was the intention of the legislature that the common law should... | |
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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... 
