Vested Right
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A right resting on a perfect obligation.
1 Hill (N. Y.) 324.
A fixed immediate right of present or future enjoyment.
24 Miss. 90.
An expectancy (8 N. Y. 110), e. g., an inchoate right of dower (104 111. 403), is not a vested right. There is no vested right in a remedy.
68 Wis. 621; 57 Pa. St. 433; 1 Neb. 419.