| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1830 - 584 pages
...1797, and all proceedings under it, are void; being a violation both of that part of the constitution of the United States which declares, that no state...any law impairing the obligation of contracts, and of the constitution of the state of New York, which declares that the legislature shall at no time... | |
| Maryland. Court of Appeals, Richard W. Gill, John Johnson, Richard Wordsworth Gill - Law reports, digests, etc - 1840 - 578 pages
...or act of incorporation, when accepted, is a contract, protected by that clause of the constitution of the United States, which declares, that "no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts," 76. 12. The act, therefore, incorporating "The Regents of the... | |
| Pennsylvania - 1835 - 472 pages
...of this law, which though not directly contended to be founded on that provision of the Constitution of the United States which declares, that no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts, yet must come within it if the ground assumed is correct. They... | |
| Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate. Committee on Coal Trade - Coal trade - 1834 - 136 pages
...prevail in republican Pennsylvania ; and it is expressed in the strongest language in the constitution of the United States, which declares " that no state shall pass any law impairing contracts," and " private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation"... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1837 - 732 pages
...plainly-established conclusion, by endeavoring tn take slither under that part of the constitution of the united States which declares that " no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts." To maintain that bank charters are " contracts," and thus to... | |
| Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 398 pages
...consequence, that it does not fall within the meaning or spirit of that provision in the constitution of the United States, which declares, " that no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts." Surely, there is no aonstitutional provision, which forbids... | |
| United States - 1841 - 640 pages
...The power of the State in such cases is denied, as inconsistent with the clause of the Constitution of the United States which declares that " no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts." By a forced and most unjustifiable construction, a law creating... | |
| Samuel Hazard - Banks and banking - 1841 - 440 pages
...by a literal construction, they violate the tenth scc.Uon of the ;f rst article of the Constitution of the United States, which declares that no State shall pass " any ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts," and the sixth and seventeenth section*... | |
| Commerce - 1846 - 632 pages
...plea of the defendant." This, it is insisted, is in violation of that provision in the constitution of the United States which declares that no State...any law impairing the obligation of contracts, and therefore void, inasmuch as it impairs a right conferred upon the bank by its charter to transfer promissory... | |
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