 | 1862 - 802 páginas
...existing contracts, will the act conflict with that clause of Section 10, Art. 1, of the Constitution of the United States, which declares that no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts ? What constitutes such a law ? A few years ago, the Legislature... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1864 - 622 páginas
...than eighty rods above the Chenango bridpe, dors not come within the prohibition of the constitution of the United States, which declares that "no state shall pass any Digest. law impairing the obligation of contracts." (U.) 6. In an action against a civil officer of... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1866 - 618 páginas
...in error Mr. Justice DAVIS delivered the opinion of the court. The constitution of the United States declares that no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts, and the 25th section of the judiciary act provides, that the final judgment or deerce of the highest court... | |
 | 1866 - 854 páginas
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 | Charles Harvey Scribner - 1867 - 860 páginas
...provisions of the tenth section of the first article of the Constitution of the United States. That section declares that no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts ; and as the widow's right to dower is a right acquired by the marringe contract, and one of the benefits... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1869 - 812 páginas
...In view of the obligation imposed upon me to support and maintain the integrity of the Constitution of the United States, which declares that "no State...any law impairing the obligation of contracts," and not entertaining the least doubt that the Act of 1868, both upon principle and the authority of the... | |
 | South Carolina. Court of Appeals, J. S. G. Richardson - 1869 - 414 páginas
...of the ordinance of the convention. 2. That the said ordinance is in violation of the Constitution of the United States, which declares that no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts. 3. That his Honor erred in deciding that there was no appreciation... | |
 | Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Austin Abbott - 1869 - 1028 páginas
...private corporation, becomes a contract executed, within the prohibitory clause of the Constitution of the United States, — which declares that no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts, a law altering a charter of such a corporation in a material... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1870 - 540 páginas
...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... | |
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In order to come within the provision of the constitution of the United States which declares that no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts... 
