 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1859 - 616 pages
...reductions of his salary were null and void under that clause of the constitution of the United States, which forbids any state to pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts, and therefore seeks to recover, in this form of proceeding, the difference between the sums... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1870 - 858 pages
...have no such jurisdiction. Much has been said in the argument, about that provision of the Federal Constitution, which forbids any State to pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts, which, I trust, Shorter vs. Cobb et al. I shall be able to show has no relevancy whatever... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 1150 pages
...to corporations by state legislatures, on the ground that such grants are repugnant to that clause of the Constitution which forbids any state to pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts. Richmond, F. & PR Co. v. Louisa R. Co. 13 How. 71, 14: 55 CUed In Gregory v. McVeigh. 23... | |
 | Albert Hutchinson Putney - Law - 1908 - 608 pages
...pas.s bankruptey laws, subject lo the following restrictions: First. Under Section 10 of Article 1 of the Constitution, which forbids any State to pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts, no bankruptey law passed by any State can affect any debt contracted before the time of... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 1182 pages
...the fact that the Supreme Court of the United States, in Curtis v. Whitney, 13 Wall. 68. 20 L. еч!. 513, had held, upon substantially the same facts,...contracts. In Curtis v. Whitney it appeared that a tax sale bad been made under a state law which provided that the purchaser at such sale would acquire title... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 1358 pages
...tax, and to do so would be vlolatlve of the provision of both the state and federal Constitutions, which forbids any state to pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts. It further alleged that said law Imposed a greater burden upon foreign than upon domestic... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - Books - 1911 - 398 pages
...Dartmouth College decision, Fletcher vs. Peck, and other cases which purported to be based on that clause of the Constitution which forbids any state to pass any law impairing the obligation of a contract. Also, if a citizen of Pennsylvania who marries his cousin in Delaware and then returns... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 1919 - 704 pages
...contract; that the State cannot annul this contract, because the State is governed by the National Constitution which forbids any State to pass any law "impairing the obligation of contracts"; It increased the confidence in him of the conservative elements and of all Nationalists.... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 701 pages
...that the State cannot annul this contract, because the State is governed by the National Const1tution which forbids any State to pass any law "impairing the obligation of contracts"; It increased the confidence in him of the conservative elements and of all Nationalists.... | |
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... constitution which forbids any state to pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts. 