... of the legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitations. Indeed, the great office of statutes is to remedy defects in the common law as they are developed, and to adapt it to the changes of time and circumstances. The New York Supplement - Page 3721915Full view - About this book
| 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
...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...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,... | |
| William John Tossell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 832 pages
...make the law invalid. " A person has no property, no vested interest, in any rule of the common law. Rights of property which have been created by the...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,... | |
| Maryland State Bar Association - 1912 - 372 pages
...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...law cannot be taken away without due process, but the law itself, as a rule of conduct, may be changed at the will of any legislature unless prevented... | |
| Henry Osborn Taylor - Corporation law - 1898 - 978 pages
...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...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,... | |
| Lawrence Boyd Evans - Constitutional law - 1898 - 702 pages
...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...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,... | |
| North Carolina. Board of Railroad Commissioners - Railroads - 1898 - 628 pages
...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...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,... | |
| North Carolina. Board of Railroad Commissioners - Railroads - 1898 - 630 pages
...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...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,... | |
| North Carolina. Board of Railroad Commissioners - Railroads - 1898 - 628 pages
...common law. That is only one of the forms of municipal law, and is no more sacred than any other. Eights 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 at the whim of the Legislature,... | |
| Charles Fisk Beach - Antitrust law - 1898 - 842 pages
...his grant by discontinuing the use. Rights of property, and to a reasonable compensation for its use, created by the common law, cannot be taken away without due process ; but the law itself, as a rule of conduct, may, unless constitutional limitations forbid, be changed at... | |
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