 | Nathan Dane - 1824 - 764 pages
...legislative act. Repealing act is void under that clause of the constitution of the United States, which prohibits a State from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. The legislature might have consented to the sale, on condition the exemption should be relinquished,... | |
 | 1843 - 506 pages
...be levied on the lands is not a violation of that clause in the constitution of the United States, which prohibits a state from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. Armstrong and others v. Treasurer of Athens County, 1 Wilcox, 235. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. (Private property.)... | |
 | Maryland. Court of Appeals, Richard W. Gill, John Johnson, Richard Wordsworth Gill - 1845 - 560 pages
...one of its counties, is not within tho perview of that part of tho Constitution of the United States, which prohibits a State from passing any law impairing the obligation of contract, so far as to prevent the Legislature from releasing it at pleasure, or discontinuing an action... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - 1832 - 494 pages
...of the United States. A clause in the tenth section of the first article of the Federal constitution prohibits a State from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. It has repeatedly been decided by the Supreme Court of the United States, that a grant by a Stale to... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1855 - 968 pages
...law was passed is void, as being repugnant to that clause of the Constitution of the United States which prohibits a State from passing any law "impairing the obligation of contracts." Although I do not consider myself, as a legislator, bound by judicial exposition of the Constitution... | |
 | Henry Baldwin - 1837 - 236 pages
...is, whether a charter to a corporation, is a contract within the tenth section of the first article of the constitution, which prohibits a state from passing any law impairing the obligation of a contract; or whether this prohibition applies only to contracts between individuals, or a state and... | |
 | Henry Baldwin - 1837 - 230 pages
...is, whether a charter to a corporation, is a contract within the tenth section of the first article of the constitution, which prohibits a state from passing any law impairing the obligation of a contract; or whether this prohibition applies only to contracts between individuals, or a state and... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1837 - 696 pages
...Corporation, is repugnant to the 10th section of the 1st article of the constitution of the United States, which prohibits a state from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. In the discussion of this proposition many topics will come under examination; all, however, connected... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell, Samuel Ames - 1846 - 872 pages
...legislative act; such repealing act being void, under that clause of the constitution of the United States which prohibits a State from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts.' The lands had afterwards been sold by commissioners, on application of the Indians for that purpose,... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1873 - 782 pages
...State and* all contracted, is in violation of that section of the Constitution of the United States which prohibits a State from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. The first section of the law permits the State to sue without paying- the bonds. Such was not the contract... | |
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... the Constitution of the United States which prohibits a State from passing any law impairing the obligation of a contract. Whatever is granted is secured subject only to the limitations and reservations in the charter or in the laws or constitutions... 
