Yancy v. Yancy
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM GIBSON. Appeal from Chancery Court at Trenton. T. C. Muse, Ch. who insisted, neither a Legislature nor a State Convention could revive a right once lost. “ Neither the Legislature nor State Convention could pass any law which impairs any vested right acquired under existing laws, or create a new obligation, impose a new duty, or attach a new disability.”
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FROM GIBSON. Appeal from Chancery Court at Trenton. T. C. Muse, Ch. who insisted, neither a Legislature nor a State Convention could revive a right once lost. “ Neither the Legislature nor State Convention could pass any law which impairs any vested right acquired under existing laws, or create a new obligation, impose a new duty, or attach a new disability.” See Sedgwick ■on Statutory and Constitutional Law, 188; 2 Galli-son, 105. “A law can be repealed by the lawgiver, but the rights which have been acquired under it while it was in force do not thereby cease.” See Sedgwick on Const, and…
1Opinion of the CourtNicholsoN, C. J.
The bill in this case is filed to settle the administration of the estate of Charles L. Yancy; to have an account of the advancements, and partition or sale of the real estate.
The proof in the cause shows that in December, 1861, the intestate put into the possession of his daughter, Sarah A. Duke, a negro woman, Betsy, and charged the same on his book as an advancement, at $500. It further appears by the proof, that in January, 1862, he put into the possession of his daughter, Martha Patton, the negroes Mariah and her children, and charged them on his book as an advancement, at $1,500. The…
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