 We know of no case in which a legislative act to transfer the property of A to B, without his consent, has ever been held a constitutional exercise of legislative power in any State in the Union. On the contrary, it has been constantly resisted, as inconsistent...  Lawyers' Reports Annotated - Σελίδα 301909Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | United States. Congress. Senate. District of Columbia - 1925 - 696 σελίδες
...627) Justice Story said: We know of no case in which a legislative act to transfer the property from A to B without his consent has ever been held a constitutional...exercise of legislative power in any State in the Union. Mr. GORE. The proposition is broached on some hands that through an exercise of the police power you... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia - 1925 - 676 σελίδες
...627) Justice Story said: We know of no case in which a legislative act to transfer the property from A to B without his consent has ever been held a constitutional...exercise of legislative power in any State in the Union. Mr. GORE. The proposition is broached on some hands that through an exercise of the police power you... | |
 | Rodney Loomer Mott - 1926 - 796 σελίδες
...property merely because it was retrospective. Hence it was constitutional. He added, "We know of no case in which a legislative act to transfer the property...been held a constitutional exercise of legislative powers in any state in the Union." Wilkinson v. Leland, 2 Pet. (US, 1829) 627 at 658, 7 L. ed. 542.... | |
 | 1920 - 512 σελίδες
...Justice Story speaking for the Court in Wilkinson v. Lcland, 2 Pet. 627, 658, said : "We know of no case, in which a legislative act to transfer the property...any State in the Union. On the contrary, it has been consistently resisted, as inconsistent with just principles, by every judicial tribunal in which it... | |
 | 1906 - 534 σελίδες
...liable to be taken away without trial, without notice and without offence. * * * We know of no case in which a legislative act to transfer the property...exercise of legislative power, in any state in the Union."10 In the argument of Daniel Webster, made in the same case, he took occasion to say: "If, at... | |
 | Bar Association of the State of Kansas - 1886 - 222 σελίδες
...right of the citizens to the free enjoyment of their property lawfully acquired. We know of no case in which a legislative act to transfer the property...tribunal in which it has been attempted to be enforced." Recently the Supreme Court of the United States touched this subject in two opinions of great weight.... | |
 | 1923 - 1652 σελίδες
...2 Pet. 658, 7 L. ed. 553, the court, speaking through Mr. Justice Story, said : "We know of no case in which a legislative act to transfer the property...of legislative power, in any state in the Union." Under our Constitution "the private property of the citizen cannot be taken against his will for any... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - 1906 - 730 σελίδες
...right of the citizens to the free enjoyment of their property lawfully acquired. " We know of no case in which a legislative act to transfer the property...constitutional exercise of legislative power in any State of the Union. On the contrary, it has been constantly resisted, as inconsistent with just principles... | |
 | Thomas M. Cooley - 2011 - 770 σελίδες
...well-being, without very strong and direct expressions of such an intention." " We know of no case in which a legislative act to transfer the property...constitutional exercise of legislative power in any State in CH. VU.] CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITATIONS. [CH. VII. the Union. On the contrary, it has been constantly resisted,... | |
 | John Phillip Reid - 2000 - 500 σελίδες
...reiterated interminably in nineteenth-century American case law.2 He knew, he declared, " 'of no case in which a legislative act to transfer the property of A. to B. without his consent, ha[d] ever been held a constitutional exercise of power in any state in the union.' " On the contrary,... | |
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