| Pennsylvania. Courts, John Wayne Ashmead - 1871 - 572 páginas
...by a literal construction, they violate the tenth section of the first 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 sections... | |
| New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1872 - 688 páginas
...lease executed under the authority of this act, was not in violation of that clause of the Constitution of the United States which declares, " that no state shall pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts." We must look into... | |
| West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1873 - 630 páginas
...estate and vest that title in anybody else. It was in violation of that clause of the Constitution of the United States which declares that "no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts." 1 Kent, pp. 413, 414 and 415; Fletcher vs. Peel; 6 Cranch,... | |
| D. C. Cloud - 1873 - 494 páginas
...taxes, is, as it affects the plaintiff in error, in violation of that provision of the constitution of the United States which declares that no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts. As early as 1833, the general assembly of North Carolina incorporated... | |
| D. C. Cloud - 1873 - 556 páginas
...taxes, is, as it affects the plaintiff in error, in violation of that provision of the constitution of the United States which declares that no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts. As early as 1833, the general assembly of North Carolina incorporated... | |
| Ohio. Supreme Court - 1873 - 518 páginas
...submitted was, whether the repealing act of 1804 was in violation of that part of the constitution of the United States, which declares that no state shall "pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the validity of a contract." The court decided... | |
| Isaac Grant Thompson - 1874 - 820 páginas
...of 1870, which is but a copy of this article, is in violation of the provision of the constitution of the United States, which declares that "no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of a contract." We may observe, before proceeding to discuss the main question,... | |
| United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - 1875 - 650 páginas
...to the trustees of a college, was a contract, within the meaning of the clause of the Constitution which declares that no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts, and that a law of a State, altering the charter, without the consent of the corporation, in a material... | |
| United States. Circuit Court (5th Circuit), William Burnham Woods - 1875 - 796 páginas
...and effect of an act of congress, and, therefore, is not obnoxious to that clause of the constitution of the United States which declares that no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of a contract; that the constitution of 1868 has the force and effect of an... | |
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