 | Massachusetts. Attorney General's Office - Attorneys general's opinions - 1915 - 396 pages
...Federal Constitutions protect freedom of contract. As our Supreme Judicial Court has expressed it, "the right to acquire, possess and protect property...includes the right to make reasonable contracts." Commonwealth v. Perry, 155 Mass. 117, 121. of the public health, the public safety and the public morals.... | |
 | Law - 1892 - 582 pages
...impairing the obligation of contracts." The right to acquire, possess and protect property inclndes the right 'to make reasonable contracts, which shall be under the protection of the law. The manufacture of cloth is an important industry, essential to the welfare of the community. There is... | |
 | Law - 1892 - 1170 pages
...not expressly forbidden. • * » The right to acquire, possess, and protect property includes tile right to make reasonable contracts, which shall be under the protection of the law. The manufacture of cloth is an important industry, essential to the welfare of the community. There is... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 1278 pages
...attempt to make inferior work answer a contract for good work present«! a different question; that the right to acquire, possess, and protect property...contracts, which shall be under the protection of the law. Says the court: "If it [the statute] be held to forbid the making of such contracts, and to permit... | |
 | 1889 - 1104 pages
...natural n6 inalienable rights of men the right ' of acquiring, possessing and protecting property.' The right to acquire, possess, and protect property...which shall be under the protection of the law." The Supreme Court of Illinois, in the case of Brace. ville Coal Co. 7'. People, 147 111. 66, 70, said:... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 936 pages
...provides, among other things, that no State shall pass "any law impairing the obligation of contracts." The right to acquire, possess, and protect property...contracts, which shall be under the protection of tbe law. The manufacture of cloth is an important industry, essential to the welfare of the community.... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 696 pages
...provides, among other things, that no State shall pass any " law impairing the obligation of contracts." The right to acquire, possess, and protect property...which shall be under the protection of the law. The manufacture of cloth is an important industry, essential to the welfare of the community. There is... | |
 | Labor - 1893 - 468 pages
...attempt to make inferior work answer a contract for good work presented a different question ; that the right to acquire, possess and protect property...contracts, which shall be under the protection of the law. Says the court : "If it [the statute] be held to forbid the making of such contracts, and to permit... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 1062 pages
...provides, among other things, that no state shall pass any " law impairing the obligation of contracts." The right to acquire, possess, and protect property...includes the right to make reasonable contracts, which skall be under the protection of the law. The manufacture of cloth is an important industry, essential... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1206 pages
...attempt to make inferior work answer a contract for pood work presented a different question; that the right to acquire, possess, and protect property...contracts, which shall be under the protection of the courts. Says the court: •If it [the statute] be held to forbid the making of such contracts, and... | |
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The right to acquire, possess, and protect property includes the right to make reasonable contracts, which shall be under the protection of the law. 
