 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - 1860 - 730 páginas
...companies, are contracts, within the meaning of, and protected by, that provision of the constitution which prohibits the States from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts ; and, therefore, without an express reservation of power, the legislature cannot divest the private... | |
 | Elijah Paine, United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - 1827 - 748 páginas
...right of a trial by jury remains unimpaired by this law. Nor does this act violate that provision in the constitution of the United States,*" which prohibits the states from passing any law impairing the obligations of contracts. Statutes of limitation relate to the remedy, and not to the obligation of... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1827 - 682 páginas
...compelled to act for selfpreservation. Its language is the language of restraint, not of coercion. It prohibits the States from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts ; it does not enjoin them to enforce contracts. Should a State be sufficiently insane to shut up or... | |
 | Maryland - 1831 - 256 páginas
...compelled to act for self-preservation. Its language is the language of restraint, not of coercion. It prohibits the States from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts; it does not enjoin them to enforce contracts. Should a State be sufficiently insane to shut up or abolish... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 páginas
...compelled to act for self-preservation. Its language is the language of restraint, not of coercion. It prohibits the states from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts ; it does not enjoin them to enforce contracts. Should a state be sufficiently insane to shut up or... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - 1844 - 820 páginas
...of the state constitution, or with any portion of the United States constitution, unless it be that which prohibits the states from passing any " law impairing the obligation of contracts." Art. I., sec. 10. The general power of the legislature to take private property for public uses, upon... | |
 | Samuel Owen - 1845 - 434 páginas
...think otherwise. That end was fully accomplished by another clause of the constitution, which directly prohibits the states from passing any law " impairing the obligation of contracts." The mrrc existence of the bankrupt power has not even touched the jurisdiction of the state legislatures.... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1848 - 712 páginas
...charter of the Irwinton Bridge Company, is not a violation of the 10th section of the 1st article of the constitution of the United States, which prohibits...passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. Young vs. McKenzie, Harrison and others 38 to 40 COLLATERAL SECURITIES. 1. A note transferred before... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly. Senate - 1849 - 492 páginas
...to warn the Senate, that there is cogent reason to believe that in passing divorce bills we violate the constitution of the United States, which prohibits the States from passing laws " impairing the obligation of contracts." Some gentlemen for whom we entertain feelings of high... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1849 - 714 páginas
...protection of the health of the City, does not, in any way, violate the 10th sect, of the 1st art. of the Constitution of the United States, which prohibits the States from passing ex post facto laws, or laws impairing the obligation of contracts. In Gibbons vs. Ogden, (9 Wheaton,... | |
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It prohibits the States from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts; it does not enjoin them to enforce contracts. 
