 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 752 pages
...thereon otherwise due to said townships, it is violative of the clause in the Federal Constitution, which prohibits a State from passing any " law impairing the obligation of contracts." The fifteenth section of that act provides that " all moneys arising from the sale of land under the... | |
 | South Carolina. Court of Appeals, J. S. G. Richardson - Equity - 1867 - 316 pages
...contracts, and held them suspended for a period of twelve months, was " at variance with the article of the Constitution of the United States which prohibits...passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts," and " consequently inoperative and void." From the examination which has been herein made of the statute... | |
 | Anson Bingham - Estates (Law) - 1868 - 720 pages
...444. Such grants, as before shown, are contracts on the part of the State, within the provision of the constitution of the United States, which prohibits...passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. Each tenant in fee, therefore, holds by the contract of the State ; and, in order to learn what the... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1869 - 790 pages
...1866, commonly called stay-laws, were violative or not of the 10th section of the 1st article of the constitution of the United States, which prohibits...passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. The act of the 12th March, 1866, prohibits the levy or sale of the property of defendants founded on... | |
 | South Carolina - South Carolina - 1871 - 1446 pages
...by violation of its provisions, would be repugnant to the tenth Section of the first Article of the Constitution of the United States, which prohibits...passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts, and, consequently, unconstitutional and void. The charter of the Camden Bridge Company is a franchise,... | |
 | Law - 1871 - 874 pages
...the legislature, is still in force and the artificial body which it created still exists. Under the Constitution of the United States, -which prohibits a state from passing any act which impairs the obligation of contracts, it may be doubted whether it would be possible even... | |
 | John Pendleton Kennedy - United States - 1872 - 652 pages
...of a banking corporation, is not restrained or forbidden by that clause of the Federal Constitution which prohibits a State from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. 5. That " a bank charter is a grant of privilege and not property.'" 6. That a grant of privilege,... | |
 | Ohio - Session laws - 1873 - 622 pages
...subsequent statute anthorizing a tax to be levied on the lands, is not a violation of that clanse of the Constitution of the United States which prohibits a state from passing any law impairing the obligations of contracts. Armstrong v. Treas. of Athens Co., 10 Ohio, 235. Where the state, by an act... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 518 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 a state from passing any laws impairing the obligation of contracts. Armstrong and others v. Treasurer of Athens Count}', 235.... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 820 pages
...Moore v. State. State, which was protected by that clause of the 10th section cf the 1st article of the constitution of the United States, which prohibits...passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. On the part of the State, it is contended that the said act of incorporation conferred a privilege... | |
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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... 
