 | Joseph Francis Menez, John R. Vile - Law - 2004 - 660 pages
...1867 deprived the Court of jurisdiction in this case. The general rule followed was that when an act is repealed, it must be considered, except as to transactions past and closed, as if it never existed. The Court then had no choice but to decline jurisdiction of this case. This does not... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 914 pages
...in Surtees v. Ellison (9 B. & C. 752), Tenterden, CJ said, " It has been long established that, when an Act of Parliament is repealed, it must be considered...transactions past and closed) as if it had never existed. That is the general rule, and we must not destroy that by indulging in conjectures as to the intention... | |
 | Kansas. Legislature. House of Representatives - 1874 - 1004 pages
...too well settled, it is too clearly the law to be questioned, that " when an act of the Legislature is repealed it must be considered, except as to transactions past and closed, as if it had never existed." Courts are to interpret and to administer the law as they find it; and they have no power to modify... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1086 pages
...court. Messrs. RT Merrlck and WF Mattin Rly, for defendant in error: When an Act of the Legislature is repealed, it must be considered, except as to transactions past and closed, as if it never existed. And the effect of repealing Acts upon suits under Acts repealed, has been determined... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 1078 pages
...opinion says : "We think it well settled that the general rule is that when an act of the legislature is repealed it must be considered, except as to transactions past and closed, as if it never existed (Ex parte McCardle, 7 Wall., 514, 19 L. Ed. 264), and that a right of action that did... | |
 | Minnesota. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1861 - 616 pages
...Plaintiff's bill, and were lost with the repeal of the act. Dwarria on Statutes, page 676, says : " When an act of Parliament is repealed, it must be considered except as to those transactions, closed, as if it never existed." Smith's Commentaries on Statutes, pages 890, 896.... | |
 | Customs administration - 1871 - 430 pages
...it was an existing law." And in Dwarris on Stat., 676, the rule is laid down in these words : 'When lligible standard applicable to every case to which the power may be those transactions passed and closed, ae if it never existed," In Butler v. Palmer, 1 Hill, 324, 332,... | |
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On the other hand, the general rule, supported by the best elementary writers, is, that "when an act of the legislature is repealed, it must be considered, except as to transactions past and closed, as if it never existed. 
