 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...  United States Reports: ... and Rules Announced at ... - Էջ 531United States. Supreme Court - 1884Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | 1916 - 1226 էջ
...sacred than any other. Rights 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 * * * of the Legislature, Indeed, the great office of statutes '.* to remedy defects, in the common... | |
 | 1890 - 1220 էջ
...sacred than any other. Rights of property which have been created by the common law cannot be taken away without due process; but the law itself, as a...the legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitation. Indeed, the great office of statutes is to remedy defects in the common law as they are... | |
 | Nebraska. Supreme Court, David Allen Campbell, Guy Ashton Brown, Lorenzo Crounse, Walter Alber Leese, Lee Herdmen, Henry Clay Lindsay, Henry Paxon Stoddart - 1885 - 760 էջ
...common law rule, which requires the charge to be reasonable, is itself a regulation as to price. * * * Indeed, the great office of statutes is to remedy...adapt it to the changes of time and circumstances. To limit the rate of charge for services rendered in a public employment, or for the use of property... | |
 | 1921 - 994 էջ
...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 at the will * * * of the Legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitations. Indeed, the great office... | |
 | 1913 - 1134 էջ
...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 constitutional...adapt it to the changes of time and circumstances.' Munn v. Illinois, 94 US 113, 134 [24 L. Ed. 77J ; Martin v. Pittsburg & Lake Erie R. R, Co., 203 U.... | |
 | Chicago and Alton Railroad Company - 1886 - 470 էջ
...other member of that Court. But the Chief Justice has said in the case of Munn vs. Illinois: "That the great office of statutes "is to remedy defects..."adapt it to the changes of time and circumstances." That Court has repeatedly held that under the common law, a railroad company would have authority to... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1886 - 926 էջ
...* * * Indeed the great olHce of statutes is to remedy State v. Republican Valley Railroad Company. defects in the common law as they are developed, and...adapt it to the changes of time and circumstances. To limit the rate of charge for services rendered in a public employment, or for the use of property... | |
 | 1917 - 1170 էջ
...sncred than any other. Rights 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 * * * of the Legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitations. Indeed, the great office... | |
 | 1908 - 714 էջ
...forego the use. " But a mere common law regulation of trade or business may be changed by statute. . . . Indeed, the great office of statutes is to remedy...adapt it to the changes of time and circumstances. To limit the rate or charge for services rendered in a public employment, or for the use of property... | |
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