...whether the nature of society and gaeernment does not prescribe some limits to the legislative power, if any be prescribed, where are they to be found,...honestly acquired, may be seized without compensation? To the Legislature all legislative power is grant«!, but the question whether the act of transferring...

...argument upon the subject." In Fletcher v. Peck, 6 Cranch 87. at 135-6, Chief Justice Marshall says: "It may well be doubted whether the nature of society...honestly acquired, may be seized without compensation. To the Legislature all legislative power is granted; but the question whether, the act of transferring...

...absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law can not devest those rights; . . . "It may well be doubted whether the nature of society...not prescribe some limits to the legislative power; . . . "It is, then, the unanimous opinion of the court, that, in this case, the estate having passed...

...Marshall and Daniel Webster both gave the matter some consideration and Mr. Marshall spoke as follows : "It may well be doubted whether the nature of society...not prescribe some limits to the legislative power. * * * "To the legislature all legislative power is granted. * * * How far the power of giving the law...

...statute under consideration. "It may well be doubted," said Marshall, in pronouncing the final opinion, "whether the nature of society and of government does...honestly acquired, may be seized without compensation? To the legislature all legislative power is granted ; but the question whether the act of transferring...

...legitimate, is rendered so by a power applicable to the case of every individual if tae community. It may well be doubted whether the nature of society...honestly acquired, may be seized without compensation? 136*] "To the legislature all legislative power is granted; but the question, whether the act of transferring...

...it, upon occasion, a qualified sanction. " It may well bo doubted," he observes in Fletcher v. Peck4" whether the nature of society and of government does...legislative power ; and if any be prescribed, where they are to be found, if the property of an individual, fairly and honestly acquired, may be seized...

...delivered by Chancellor Walworth, cites Chief Justice Marshall's words in the case of Fletcher v. Peck : " It may well be doubted whether the nature of society...not prescribe some limits to the legislative power." 10 United States Supreme Court reports, 135, 136. Medford v Learned, 16 Massachusetts Supreme Court...

...often heard in courts of justice." "It may well be added," said the same great judge (6 Cranch, 135), "whether the nature of society and of government does not prescribe some limits to legislative power; and. if any be prescribed, where are they to be found, if the property of an individual,...

...of society and of government do not prescribe some limits to the legislative power; and he asks, " if any be prescribed, where are they to be found,...honestly acquired, may be seized without compensation ? " It is nowhere intimated hi that opinion, that a state statute, which divests a vested right, is...