 | Nathan Dane - Law - 1824 - 768 pages
...could not be rescinded by a subsequent legislative act. Repealing act is void under that clause of the constitution of the United States, which prohibits...passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. The legislature might have consented to the sale, on condition the exemption should be relinquished,... | |
 | Law - 1843 - 506 pages
...subsequent statute authorizing a tax to be levied on the lands is not a violation of that clause in the constitution of the United States, which prohibits...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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 560 pages
...State, for the use and benefit of one of its counties, is not within tho perview of that part of tho Constitution of the United States, which prohibits...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 - Government publications - 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 individuals,... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1855 - 968 pages
...from a debt existing at the time the law was passed is void, as being repugnant to that clause of the Constitution of the United States which prohibits...passing any law "impairing the obligation of contracts." Although I do not consider myself, as a legislator, bound by judicial exposition of the Constitution... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1837 - 696 pages
...establishing the Warren Bridge Corporation, is repugnant to the 10th section of the 1st article of the constitution of the United States, which prohibits...passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. In the discussion of this proposition many topics will come under examination; all, however, connected... | |
 | Henry Baldwin - Constitutional history - 1837 - 230 pages
...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 - Constitutional law - 1837 - 236 pages
...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... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 782 pages
...and with reference to which, the State and* all contracted, is in violation of that section of the Constitution of the United States which prohibits...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... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell, Samuel Ames - Business enterprises - 1846 - 872 pages
...rescinded by a subsequent legislative act; such repealing act being void, under that clause of the constitution of the United States which prohibits...passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts.' The lands had afterwards been sold by commissioners, on application of the Indians for that purpose,... | |
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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... 
