 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1820 - 662 pages
...this art. It is contended to be a 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 furnished by the record for presuming the consent of the proprietors to this... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 398 pages
...decisions, a contract. The question, then, is, whether it falls within the scope of tliat clause in the federal constitution, which forbids a state to pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts. It has been asserted, that it does come wnhin the scope of that provision; and I suppose... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...of this act. It is contended to be a 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 furnished by the record for presuming the consent of the proprietors to this... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1885 - 952 pages
...tort, growing outof the wrongful conversion of personal property, is not a contract within the meaning of that provision of the Federal constitution which...state to pass any law impairing the obligation of a contract; aliter, if the judgment wore founded upon a contract. Therefore, a judgment based on an... | |
 | Virginia. Board of Public Works - Public works - 1850 - 556 pages
...those cases where it is charged that the clause of the constitution of the United States is violated, which forbids a state to pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts. Your board feels no apprehension that the supreme court of the federal government will decide... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 738 pages
...the State, exercising authority under the State, on the ground that such authority was repugnant to that provision of the Federal Constitution which forbids...State to pass any law impairing the obligation of a contract. The purpose of the petition, the issue 'which it presented and sought to have determined,... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 1024 pages
...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 of contracts. These cases were heard together in this court. They involve a single, and the same question... | |
 | Wisconsin - Wisconsin - 1876 - 1184 pages
...of the Wisconsin constitution reserving the right to alter or repeal corporate charters, is a clear violation of that provision of the Federal Constitution...State to pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts. VV ilmington II. R. Co. rs. Keid, 13 Wallace, 266; Pacific, R, R. Co. rs. McGuire, 20 Wallace,... | |
 | John Barbee Minor - Law - 1876 - 686 pages
...Legislature. seen, are protected by that clause of the Constitution of the United States (Art. I, § x. 1) which forbids a State to pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts. (Fletcher v. Peck, 5 Cr. 88; Terrett V. Taylor, 9 Cr. 43; Dartmouth Col. v. Woodward, 4... | |
 | John Barbee Minor - Common law - 1877 - 1150 pages
...implied in the franchise, it is protected against invasion by the State government, by that clause of the Federal Constitution which forbids a State to pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts. (US Const. Art. I, § x, 1; Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 629; Providence Bk.... | |
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It is contended to be a violation of that part of the constitution of the United States which forbids a state to pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts. 
