It may well be doubted whether the nature of society and of government does not prescribe some limits to the legislative power ; and if any be prescribed, where are they to be found, if the property of an individual, fairly and honestly acquired, may... Transactions - Page 281by Maryland State Bar Association - 1909Full view - About this book
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 746 pages
...reasoning not often heard in courts of justice." "It may well be added, "said the same great judge,f " whether the nature of society and of government does not prescribe some limits to legislative power; and, if any be prescribed, where are they to be found, if the property of an individual,... | |
| United States. Circuit Courts, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 670 pages
...said by Chief Justice MARSHALL, in Fletcher v. Peck, 6 Oranch, 135, if any limits to legislative power be prescribed, where are they to be found, if the...acquired, may be seized without compensation ? To divert a stream from its natural channel into an artificial one, for the purpose of affording improved... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 880 pages
...cite and approve the expressions of Marshall, CJ, in Fletcher v. Peck:\ ''"And it may well be doubted whether the nature of society and of government does...not prescribe some limits to the legislative power," &c. This whole subject is fully treated in the late decision of Booth v. Woodbury** where it is expressly... | |
| West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 834 pages
...Chief Justice Marshall, in Fletcher vs. Peck, 6 Cranch, 135, when he said : " It may well be doubted, whether the nature of society and of government does...all legislative power is granted, but the question Jan'y Term, Peerce et cd. w. Carskadon. 1870. whether the act of transferring the property of an individual... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Greenbacks - 1872 - 192 pages
...not often heard in courts of justice." " It may well be added/' said the great judge (!BID., 135), u whether the nature of society and of government does not prescribe some limits to legislative power; and, if any be prescribed, where are they to be found, if the property of an individual,... | |
| D. C. Cloud - Monopolies - 1873 - 494 pages
...reasoning not often heard in courts of justice." " It may well be added," said the same great judge, "whether the nature of society and of government does not prescribe some limits to legislative power; and, if any be prescribed, where they are to be found, if the property of an individual,... | |
| D. C. Cloud - Monopolies - 1873 - 556 pages
...reasoning not often heard in courts of justice." " It may well be added," said the same great judge, "whether the nature of society and of government does not prescribe some limits to legislative power; and, if any be prescribed, where they are to be found, if the property of an individual,... | |
| Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional law - 1876 - 664 pages
...law cannot divest those rights. Ibid. 38. It may well hi: doubted whether the nature of society and government does not prescribe some limits to the legislative...power : and if any be prescribed, where are they to be tbund, if the property of an individual, fairly and honestly acquired, mav he sei/ed without compensation?... | |
| Pacific railroads - 1878 - 800 pages
...Fletcher vs. Peck, 6 Cranch, in discussing this question, uses this language : It mav well be doubted whether the nature of society and of government does...power, and if any be prescribed, where are they to be fonnd if the property of an individual, fairly and honestly acquired, may be seized without compensation... | |
| Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 884 pages
...Fletcher v. I'relc, ft Cranch, 87 : 'It may well be doubted,' he says,' whether the nature of society find of government does not prescribe some limits to the legislative power, and If any he prescribed, where are they to>be found It the property of an Individual, fairly and honestly acquired,... | |
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