 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
 | John Innes Clark Hare - Constitutional law - 1889 - 762 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 ia only one of the forms of municipal law, and is no more sacred than any other. Rights of property... | |
 | 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
...every rule of the common law can be changed at the whim of the legislature, for it distinctly says that rights of property which have been created by the...law cannot be taken away without due process. But rights to life and liberty are equally protected by the Constitution, and these rights are but a rule... | |
 | John Downey Works - Jurisdiction - 1894 - 956 pages
...134; Wellman v. Chicago & GT Ry. Co., 83 Mich. 592; 47 NW Rep. 489, 495. "A person has no propcrty.no vested interest, in any rule of the common law. That...forms of municipal law, and is no more sacred than any othev. Rights of property which have been created by the common law can not he taken away without due... | |
 | William John Tossell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 760 pages
...Campbell v. Holt, 115 US 628 [6 Sup. Ct. Rep. 209; 29 L. Ed. 483]. Mr. Justice Waite has well stated that: "A person has no property, no vested interest, in...property which have been created by the common law can not be taken away without due process ; but the law itself, as a rule of conduct, may be changed... | |
 | James Bradley Thayer - Constitutional law - 1895 - 1214 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...forms of municipal law, and is no more sacred than an\- other. Rights of property which have been created by the common law cannot be taken away without... | |
 | William John Tossell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 832 pages
...to the passage of this act. But, in the opinion of the court, this does not 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 common law cannot be taken away without due process... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 930 pages
...asserted in Munn v. Illinois, but it Is too obvious to require any authority. It is said in that case: "A person has no property, no vested Interest, in...municipal law, and is no more sacred than any other . . . The groat office of statutes Is to remedy defects In the common law as they are developed, and... | |
 | Charles Fisk Beach - Antitrust law - 1898 - 842 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...than any other. Rights of property which have been enacted by the common law cannot* be taken away without due process ; but the law itself, as a rule... | |
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