 | Jean Edward Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 788 pages
...Ordinance enacted by the Continental Congress in July 1 787 stated that "no law ought to ... have force in said territory that shall in any manner whatever interfere with or affect private contracts . . . previously formed." Emphasis added. At the Constitution Convention six weeks later (August 28,... | |
 | William Alexander Duer - Constitutional law - 1999 - 588 pages
...of the land; and should the public exigencies make it necessary for the common preservation, to take any person's property, or to demand his particular...with, or affect private contracts or engagements, lonajide, and without fraud previously formed. Art. 331. Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary... | |
 | José López Baralt - Law - 1999 - 400 pages
...the land, and should the public exigencies make it necessary, for the common preservation, to take any person's property, or to demand his particular...for the same. And in the just preservation of rights of property, it is understood and declared, that no law ought ever to be made or have force in the... | |
 | R. Bruce Douglass, Joshua Mitchell - Reference - 2000 - 274 pages
...the land, and should the public exigencies make it necessary, for the common preservation, to take any person's property, or to demand his particular...affect private contracts, or engagements bona fide and without fraud previously formed. Article HI: Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary... | |
 | Kermit L. Hall - Law - 2000 - 464 pages
...States to interfere in private contracts."14 King's reference was to the Northwest Ordinance, which declared that "no law ought ever to be made or have...affect private contracts, or engagements bona fide, and without fraud previously performed."16 Two delegates spoke against King's motion. Gouverneur Morris... | |
 | Richard Allen Epstein - Economic liberties (U.S. Constitution) - 2000 - 430 pages
...Ordinance for the Northwest Territory, drafted only several years hefore, adds force to this reading: And in the just preservation of rights and property,...understood and declared, that no law ought ever to he made or have force in the said territory, that shall in any manner whatever interfere with or affect... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 2000 - 1220 pages
...the land, and should the public exigencies make it necessary, for the common preservation, to take any person's property, or to demand his particular...affect private contracts, or engagements, bona fide, and without fraud previously formed. 757.17 ARTICLE III Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary... | |
 | Bernard H. Siegan - Law - 356 pages
...the land, and should the public exigencies make it necessary, for the common preservation, to take any person's property, or to demand his particular services, full compensation shall be made for the same.168 Again, the protection accorded to law-abiding persons was unqualified, except when the acquisition... | |
 | Joy Hakim - America - 2003 - 356 pages
...the land; and should the public exigencies make it necessary, for the common preservation, to take any person's property, or to demand his particular...affect private contracts or engagements, bona fide, and without fraud previously formed. Article 3. Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to... | |
 | Daniel A. Farber, Suzanna Sherry - Law - 2004 - 221 pages
...that "should the public exigencies make it necessary for the common preservation to take any persons property, or to demand his particular services, full compensation shall be made for the same . . . ." The provision about demanding services could be a reference to the practice of "impressing"... | |
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No man shall be deprived of his liberty or property, but by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land, and should the public exigencies make it necessary, for the common preservation, to take any person's property, or to demand his particular... 
