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" American people have said, in the constitution of the United States, that "no state shall pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law or law impairing the obligation of contracts. "
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in Ohio Courts of Record Except ... - Page 360
by William John Tossell - 1920
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeals of ..., Volume 9

Maryland. Court of Appeals, Richard W. Gill, John Johnson, Richard Wordsworth Gill - Law reports, digests, etc - 1840 - 578 pages
...and judicial powers of government, ought to be forever separate and distinct from each other," and of the constitution of the United States, that " no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts," and utterly null and void. The act of 1825 is obnoxious to...
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Public Documents of Massachusetts, Volume 2

Massachusetts - 1835 - 1576 pages
...proposed statute is to be exercised only by vote of the town. In these circumstances, the provision in the Constitution of the United States that no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts affords no protection to the water company independent of prohibitions...
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The Writings of John Marshall, Late Chief Justice of the United States, Upon ...

John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...itpronounce a legislative act to be contrary to the constitution. [__But the American people have said, in the constitution of the United States, that '• No state shall pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts." In the same instrument...
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Commentaries on the Law of Marriage and Divorce, and Evidence in Matrimonial ...

Joel Prentiss Bishop - Divorce - 1852 - 782 pages
...has been suggested, but not often, that legislative divorces are an infringement of the provision of the Constitution of the United States, that " no State shall . . pass any . . . law impairing the obligation of contracts." * Indeed, in the Dartmouth College case, Air. Justice Story...
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The Science of Government as Exhibited in the Institutions of the United ...

Charles Bishop Goodrich - United States - 1853 - 364 pages
...execution and performance, restrained only in this exercise of authority, by an inhibition, found in the constitution of the United States, "that no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts." Over these subjects the federal government has no power —...
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Catalogue of the library of the Massachusetts historical society, Volume 1

John Appleton (M.D.) - 1859 - 752 pages
...edizione. 3 vol. 16mo. Cremona, 1781. BIBB, Hon. George M. An Exposition of the Meaning of the Clause in the Constitution of the United States, that " No State shall pass any eje post facto Law." Blair vs. Williams, and Lapsley PS. Brashear. Bvo, pp. 24. nd (Two copies.) Opinion...
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A Full and Arranged Digest of the Decisions in Common Law, Equity ..., Volume 1

Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 836 pages
...by the passage of a bankrupt law by congress. Adams v. Storey, Paine's CCR 79. 104. The provision of the constitution of the United States, that " no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts," does not apply to state insolvent laws. Ibid. 105. The defendant,...
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Reports of Cases at Law Argued and Determined in the Court of ..., Volume 14

South Carolina. Court of Appeals, J. S. G. Richardson - Equity - 1867 - 316 pages
...proceedings in such actions, is, so far as it affects contracts existing when the Act was passed, repugnant to the provision of the Constitution of the United States that "no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts," and the similar provision of the Constitution of this State,...
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The Debates and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of ..., Volume 1

Michigan. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1867 - 728 pages
...any contracts which we have already made. Those laws must remain in force, because the provision of the Constitution of the United States that no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts, would prevent their repeal. Mr. WILLAED. As I have already remarked,...
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Reports of Cases at Law Argued and Determined in the Court of ..., Volume 15

South Carolina. Court of Appeals, J. S. G. Richardson - Equity - 1869 - 414 pages
...did not impair the obligation of contracts, and therefore was not in conflict with the provision of the Constitution of the United States that "no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts" Ib. S. Held, farther, that a sealed note for $7,000 dated the...
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