 | Nathan Dane - Law - 1824 - 764 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...could not be rescinded by a subsequent legislative act.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...State from 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...state from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. Armstrong and others v. Treasurer of Athens County, 1 Wilcox, 235. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. (Private... | |
 | 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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1830 - 584 pages
...the patentee, and which deed was executed under the patent. This is not a ease within the clause of the constitution of the United States, which prohibits a state from passing laws which shall impair the obligation of contracts. Tlie only contract made by the state is a grant... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1855 - 968 pages
...debtor 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...from passing any law "impairing the obligation of contracts." Although I do not consider myself, as a legislator, bound by judicial exposition of the... | |
 | 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...state from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. In the discussion of this proposition many topics will come under examination; all, however,... | |
 | 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 individuals.... | |
 | 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 individuals.... | |
 | Michigan - Law - 1837 - 366 pages
...the 27th of Febru* ary 1841, come within that clause of the 10th Section *"• of the 1st Article of the Constitution of the United States which prohibits a state from passing a law im-( pairing the obligation of contracts. The laws of a state regulating the process of iti couita... | |
 | Samuel Alfred Foot - Banking law - 1839 - 112 pages
...of popular legislation. Every association is a contract between the parties, which is protected by the Constitution of the United States, which prohibits a state from passing a " law impairing the obligation of contracts." These associations, therefore, must continue for the... | |
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... the Constitution of the United States which prohibits a State from passing any law impairing the obligation of a contract. 
