 | Nicholas Baylies - Law reports, digests, etc - 1814 - 478 pages
...cannot deveet those rights. Ibid. 5 À law, annulling conveyances, is unconstitutional, because it is a law impairing the obligation of contracts, within...meaning of the constitution of the United States. Ibid. 89. II. Law of Nations. 1 The law of nations is a part of the municipal law of Pennsylvania. I Dallas,... | |
 | Nicholas Baylies - Law reports, digests, etc - 1814 - 576 pages
...a contract executed. Ibid. A . 2t A law, annulling conveyances, is unconstitutional, because it is a law impairing the obligation of contracts, within the meaning of the constitution of the United States. Fletcher v. Peck. 6 Cranch, 89. 2-3 A contract cannot be enforced in a court of... | |
 | 1817 - 436 pages
...estaWish a uniform system on the subject : that an insolvent act extending to past as well as future debts is not a law "impairing the obligation of contracts," within the meaning of the constitution : and that a federal court, sitting within this state, is bound to support a discharge under such law... | |
 | John Elihu Hall - Law - 1817 - 622 pages
...a uniform system on the subject: that an insolvent act extending to past, as well as future debts, is not a law " impairing the obligation of contracts," within the meaning of the constitution; and that a federal court, sitting within this state, is bound to support a discharge under such hw... | |
 | 1819 - 652 pages
...witlun the meaning of the constitution of the U. Stales'1 3. Whether the act aforesaid is an act or law impairing the obligation of contracts, within the meaning of the constitution of the U. States' 4. Whether the plea is a good and sufficient bar of the plaintiff's action? And, after... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1819 - 816 pages
...system of bankruptcy could exist. Is a bankVoi. IV. 23 l7g CASES IN THE SUPREME COURT 1.819. rugt law a law impairing the obligation of contracts, — -— ' within the meaning of the constitution ? We insist,that 3 Bankrupt law, so far from being considered as a law impairing the obligation of... | |
 | Edward Ingersoll - Law - 1821 - 882 pages
...to any debt contracted previous to his discharge) so far as it attempts to discharge the contract is a law impairing the obligation of contracts within the meaning of the constitution of the United States, id. 197. It makes no difference in the application of this principle, whether the... | |
 | Nathan Dane - Law - 1824 - 768 pages
...devest Coleinau, 84. those rights : 4. A statute annulling conveyances, is unconstitutional, as it is a law impairing the obligation of contracts within the meaning of the Federal constitution; and a party to a contract, though a sovereign Slate, cannot declare its own deed... | |
 | Elijah Paine, United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - Law reports, digests, etc - 1827 - 748 pages
...uniform system on the subject — that an insolvent act extending to past, as well as future debts, is not a law "impairing the obligation of contracts," within the meaning of the constitution — and that a federal Court, sitting within this state, is bound to support a discharge under such... | |
 | Peter Force - Almanacs, American - 1828 - 294 pages
...surrendering; his property in the manner it prescribes) so far as it attempts to discharge the contract, is a law impairing the obligation of contracts within the meaning of the Constitution of the Unite«! States, and is not a good plea in bar of an action brought upon such contract. Sturges... | |
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