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... Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan - Page 77by Michigan. Supreme Court, George C. Gibbs, Randolph Manning, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, William Jennison, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Dudley Fuller, Hovey K. Clarke, John Adams Brooks, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell - 1913Full 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 - 1891 - 782 pages
...or forego the use. But a mere common-law regulation of trade or business may be changed by statute. A person has no property, no vested interest, in any...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... | |
| 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
...or forego the use. But a mere common-law regulation of trade or business may be changed by statute. A person has no property, no vested interest in 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... | |
| Pacific railroads - 1878 - 800 pages
...these earnings among the stockholders of this corporation as against the creditors. That is only oue of the forms of municipal law, and is no more, sacred...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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Edward Lillie Pierce - Railroad law - 1881 - 684 pages
...regulate at all. . . . But a mere common-law regulation of trade or business may be changed by statute. A person has no property, 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... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 1164 pages
...Justice Waite that: "A mere common-law ; regulation of trade or business may be changed by statute. A person has no property, no : vested interest, in...be taken | away without due process ; but the law It| self, as a rule of conduct, may be changed at the will, or even at the whim, of the Legislature,... | |
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