 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1819 - 816 pages
...nothing from a grant. A contract executed, as well as one that is executory, contains obligationbinding on the parties. A grant in its own nature amounts to an extinguishment of the right of tht grantor, and implies a contract not to reassert thai right. A party is always estopped by his own... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1825 - 738 pages
...Government are transferable, or the proper objects of contract. A grant (and such is a charter) extinguishes the right of the grantor, and implies a contract not to reassert that right until the end of the charter; yet it is not competent for the Secretary or the President to take advantage... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court, George Noble Stewart - Law reports, digests, etc - 1835 - 526 pages
...objectof the contract is performed; and this, says Blackstone, differs in nothing, from a grant. A contract executed, as well as one which is executory,...and implies a contract not to reassert that right. If under a fair construction of the constitution, grants are comprehended under the term contracts,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...nothing from a grant. The contract between Georgia and the purchasers was executed by the grant. A contract executed, as well as one which is executory,...and implies a contract not to reassert that right. If under a fair construction of the constitution, grants are comprehended under the term contracts,... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1832 - 590 pages
...cause maybe assigned for its invalidity, and though that party be the legislature of a state. A grant amounts to an extinguishment of the right of the grantor,...and implies a contract not to reassert that right. A grant from a state is as much protected by the operation of the provision of the constitution, as a... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 800 pages
...impaired by state legislation. The constitution is not chargeable with such folly, or inconsistency. Every grant in its own nature amounts to an extinguishment...the grantor, and implies a contract not to re-assert it. A party is, therefore, always estopped by his own grant.1 How absurd would it be to provide, that... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Isaac Newton Blackford - Law reports, digests, etc - 1836 - 550 pages
...as well as an executory contract, contains obligations binding on the parties; that a grant, in its nature, amounts to an extinguishment of the right...and implies a contract not to reassert that right; and that in fact, a grant is a contract executed, and that its obligation as such continues in force,... | |
 | James Madison Porter - Charters - 1837 - 72 pages
...nothing from a grant. The contract between Georgia and the purchasers was exeeutfd hy the grant. A contract executed, as well as one which is executory,...to an extinguishment of the right of the grantor, »nd implies a contract nut to reassert that right. A party is, therefore, always estopped by his own... | |
 | Medicine, Botanic - 1838 - 860 pages
...performed. This diners nothing from a grant. " .Every grant (whether by the Legislature or otherwise) in its own nature, amounts to an extinguishment of...the grantor, and implies a contract not to reassert it. — Contracts too are express or implied. Express contracts are where the terms of the agreement... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 696 pages
...nothing from a grant. The contract between Georgia and the purchasers was executed by the grant. A contract executed, as well as one which is executory,...continues, and since the constitution uses the general termcontract, without distinguishing between those which are executory and those which are executed,... | |
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A contract executed, as well as one which is executory, contains obligations binding on the parties. A grant, in its own nature, amounts to an extinguishment of the right of the grantor, and implies a contract not to reassert that right. A party is, therefore,... 
