 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 pages
...Bard and Owings. In 1788 the legislature of Virginia passed an act, vesting one hundred acres, part of this tract, in trustees, to be laid off in lots,...violation of that part of the constitution of the United States which forbids a state to pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts. Much reason is... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1885 - 952 pages
...conversion of personal property, is a contract \viiliiu the meaning of art. 1. sec. 10, par. 1, of the constitution of the United States, which forbids...state to pass any law impairing the obligation of a contract. The execution under which the homestead exemption was sold. was obtained prior to the adoption... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1870 - 746 pages
...exercised under the State of Virginia," " on the ground of their being repugnant" to that clause of " the constitution of the United States" which forbids...State to pass " any law impairing the obligation of contracts;" and " the decision of the court being in favor of their validity," there can be no doubt... | |
 | John Pendleton Kennedy - 1872 - 622 pages
...property, And that a bank charter is not a contract, in the sense and understanding of that clause of the Constitution of the United States which forbids a State to pass a law impairing the obligation of contracts. I designed to debate the question with you, with a full... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1873 - 1024 pages
...1871, in relation to the coupon bonds issued under this last act, is repugnant to the provision of the Constitution of the United States, which forbids a State to pass any law impairing the obligation '<f contracts. Idem, 833 CONVEYANCES. 1. The Article si, § 1, of the Constitution of Virginia. and... | |
 | John H. Smyth - 1875 - 486 pages
...or postponed by a subsequent act of such legislature.' Such bondholder is protected by the clause of the Constitution of the United States, which forbids a State to pass a law impairing the obligation of contracts.4 In the case of Robinson v. Magee,5 the Supreme Court... | |
 | 1877 - 980 pages
...acres of land in Bardstown. In 1788 the legislate of Virginia passed an act vesting one hundred acres of this tract" in trustees, to be laid off in lots,...to be sold for the benefit of the proprietors." The vital question was whether this act impaired the obligation of contracts. It was held that it did not.... | |
 | 1877 - 1004 pages
...acres of land in Bardstown. In 1788 the legislature of Virginia passed an act vesting one hundred acres of this tract " in trustees, to be laid off in lots,...to be sold for the benefit of the proprietors." The vital question was whether this act impaired the obligation of contracts. It was held that it did not.... | |
 | Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates - 1877 - 766 pages
...put behind us. Why is the contract of the funding bill irrepealable? In construing the provision of the constitution of the United States, which forbids...state to pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts, in a multitude of cases and by the highest courts, state and federal, it has been held and... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1882 - 784 pages
...Virginia to Bard and Owings. In 1788 the legislature of Virginia passed an act vesting 100 acres — part of this tract — in trustees, to be laid off in lots,...violation of that part of the constitution of the United States which forbids a state to pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts. Much reason is... | |
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Virginia passed an act, vesting one hundred acres, part of this tract, in trustees, to be laid off in lots, some of them to be given to settlers, and others to be sold for the benefit of the proprietors. The cause depends mainly on the validity of this... 
