 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 732 pages
...common law. That is only one of the forms of municipal law, and is no more sacred than any other. Bights 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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 1220 pages
...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...as a rule of conduct, may be changed at the will, or even at the whim, of the legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitation. Indeed, the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 994 pages
...Co., 223 US 1, where it is said, at page 50, 32 Sup. Ct. 109. 175 (56 L. Ed. 327, 38 LRA [NS] 44). "The law itself, as a rule of conduct, may be changed...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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 1170 pages
...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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1134 pages
...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 self, as a rule of conduct, may be changed at the will * * * of the Legislature, unless prevented by... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 1346 pages
...citizen, etc. It is held by that court that no one has a vested right in the common law. "The law itself may be changed at the will of the • * * Legislature,...unless^ prevented by constitutional limitations." If the appellant had been possessed of property created by \ the common law, the Legislature could... | |
 | John Innes Clark Hare - Constitutional law - 1888 - 764 pages
...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...as a rule of conduct, may be changed at the will, or even the whim, of the legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitations. Indeed, the great... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 1294 pages
...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 common 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... | |
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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... 
