 | Robert Walsh - 1830 - 580 pages
...that one legislature cannot abridge the power of a succeeding legislature," the Chief Justice says, "The correctness of this principle, so far as respects...under a law, a succeeding legislature cannot undo it. The past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power; when then a law is, in its nature, a contract;... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1836 - 680 pages
...competent to pass; and one legislature cannot abridge the powers of a succeeding legislature. But if un act be done under a law, a succeeding legislature cannot undo it. Ibid. 1-io. 37. When a law is, in its nature, a contract, arid absolute rights have vested under that... | |
 | James Madison Porter - 1837 - 72 pages
...legislature competent to the annihilation of such title, and to a resumption of the property thus held ? The principle asserted is, that one legislature is...under a law, a succeeding legislature cannot undo it. The past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power. Conveyances have been made, those conveyances... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1838 - 696 pages
...repeal any act which a former legislature wos compc.ent to pass; and that one legislature cannot abiidge the powers of a succeeding legislature. The correctness...under a law, a succeeding legislature cannot undo it. The past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power. Conveyances have been made, those conveyances... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 pages
...legislature competent to the annihilation of such title, and to a resumption of the property thus held ? The principle asserted is, that one legislature is...under a law, a succeeding legislature cannot undo it. '.The past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power.] Conveyances have been made, those conveyances... | |
 | 1841 - 570 pages
...annulment to be unconstitutional, and the grant to stand good. We again quote the words of Marshall : " If an act be done under a law, a succeeding legislature cannot undo it. The past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power. When, then, a law is in its nature a contract,... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1040 pages
...legislature competent to the annihilation of such title, and to a usurpation of the property thus held? The principle asserted is, that one legislature is...under a law, a succeeding legislature cannot undo it. The past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power. Conveyances have been made ; those conveyances... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 pages
...annihilation of such title, and to a usurpation of the property thus held? The principle asserted-is, that one legislature is competent to repeal any act...under a law, a succeeding legislature cannot undo it. The past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power. Conveyances have been made ; those conveyances... | |
 | California. Legislature. Assembly - 1853 - 1292 pages
...Legislature competent to the annihilation of such title, and to a resumption of the property thus held ?" " The principle asserted is, that one Legislature is...under a law, a succeeding Legislature cannot undo it. The past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power. Conveyances have been made, — those conveyances... | |
 | Richard Peters - 1860 - 836 pages
...court said: — The correctness of this principle, so far as it respects general legislation, cannot be controverted. But, if an act be done under a law, a succeeding legislature cannot nndo it. The past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power. Fletcher v. Peck, 6 Cranch, 87; 2... | |
| |
But, if an act be done under a law, a succeeding legislature cannot undo it. The past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power. Conveyances have been made, those conveyances have vested legal estates, and, if those estates may be seized by the sovereign... 
