 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...  The Pacific Reporter - Page 2471909Full view - About this book
 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - 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 - 1916 - 804 pages
...from its former decisions, as follows : "A person has no property, no vested interest, in any rule of the common law. That is only one of the forms of municipal...itself, as a rule of conduct, may be changed at the will * * * of the legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitations. Indeed, the great office... | |
 | 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 - 1891 - 782 pages
...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 forms of municipal...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... | |
 | 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 - 1913 - 804 pages
...the laws. Id. 8. A person has no property, no vested interest in any rule of the common law, which is only one of the forms of municipal law and is no more sacred in character than any other. Id. 4. The tendency of the changes made by the act is to compel carriers... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1912 - 644 pages
...changes it is enough to observe: "First. A person has no property, no vested interest, in any rule of the common law. That is only one of the forms of municipal...itself, as a rule of conduct, may be changed at the will * * * of the legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitations. Indeed, the great office... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1921 - 706 pages
...held in Mondou v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Rd. Co., 223 US, 1, where it is said, at page 50: "The law itself, as a rule of conduct, may be changed at the will * * * of the legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitations. Indeed, the great office... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1880 - 426 pages
...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...legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitations." — Munn v. Illinois, 94 US Rep. 113, 134. tion from military duty, granted by the law after full performance... | |
 | 1885 - 1902 pages
...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, may be changed at the will or ;ven the mere whim of the legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitations." And in Walker... | |
 | Ohio State Bar Association - 1914 - 294 pages
...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 that phrase that it " is no more sacred than any other," I wondered if the judge who wrote... | |
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