Sentence examples for a vested right from inspiring English sources

Rep. 209, it was not such a vested right as was beyond the control of the legislature.

Why privilege pensions over everything else holding that, on being hired, one acquires a vested right to the continuation of pension rules, but not a vested right in the future state of anything else?

"What appeals to me is to do it by a permit, so it's not a vested right that a restaurant has," Mr. Potter said.

The pre-1969 retirees holding shows what's already obvious: that one can also acquire a (vested) right to new and more generous terms that one agrees to later.

Underlying this doctrine is the fact that the beneficiary obtains a vested right as against the promisor at the instant the promisor agrees to undertake the promisee's duty or liability to the beneficiary.

"Neither the mere issuance of permits, nor the developer's substantial expenditures and physical improvements are enough, standing alone, to confer a vested right to the project," the board said.

Commission staff argues that the city would still have to submit a "vested rights claim" to continue the mowing.

Thus, Illinois courts have consistently held that a third-party creditor beneficiary obtains an immediate vested right as against a promisor, and this right, once given, deprives the promisor of any interest or right in the subject matter of the promise, including the right to alter, rescind, or revoke it.

Stuart also suggests that individuals have no vested right to a particular set of judicial duties.

There can, in the nature of things, be no vested right in an existing law which precludes its change or repeal, nor vested right in the omission to legislate upon a particular subject which exempts a contract from the effect of subsequent legislation upon its subject matter by competent legislative authority.' 63 Vt .169, 173, 13 L.R.A. 70, 3 Inters.

'No pensioner has a vested legal right to his pension.