When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. (John Marshall)

When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.

John Marshall

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