What constitutes a vested right or vested right?
Canada (Federal), Canada
The following excerpt is from Dalton v. Canadian Human Rights Commission, 1984 CanLII 2934 (FC), [1985] 1 FC 37:
It is trite to say that what constitutes a vested right (sometimes called an accrued right, sometimes an acquired right, sometimes an existing right) is difficult of definition. I note that in Craies on Statute Law, 7th ed. (1971), at p. 399, the following definition, culled from Starey v. Graham, [1899] 1 Q.B. 406 at p. 411, is found: "some specific right which in one way or another has been acquired by an individual and which some persons have got and others have not."
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