 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - 1849 - 814 sider
...1840 was unconstitutional, because it violated that clause of the 10th section of the first article of the constitution of the United States, which prohibits a State from passing a law impairing the obligation of contracts; and also violated a similar provision contained in the... | |
 | Samuel Owen - 1850 - 416 sider
...of the husband as tenant by courtesy of the wife's real estate, was repugnant to that provision of the constitution of the United States which prohibits...passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. After a very able and learned opinion of the jndge, he ordered that the defendant should have jndgment... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1852 - 496 sider
...of the United States and consequently void ; that it is a statute in conflict with that provision of the constitution of the United States which prohibits...state from passing any law impairing the obligation of a contract. The argument is that the relation of husband and wife is created by a contract of the parties,... | |
 | 1852 - 780 sider
...extinguished for twelve months after a sale under a decree in chancery, was in violation of that provision of the Constitution of the United States which prohibits a State from passing a law impairing the obligation of contracts. In the case of MeCracken vs. Hayward, (2 How. 608), it... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - 1854 - 550 sider
...void a law of the State of Illinois, on the ground that it violated the provision of the Constitution which prohibits a State from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. The act of the Illinois Legislature, passed subsequent to the contract, provided that the equitable... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1855 - 966 sider
...debtor from a debt existing at ihe time the law was passed is void, as being repugnant to that clause of the Constitution of the United States which prohibits...passing any law "impairing the obligation of contracts." Although I do not consider myself, as a legislator, bound by judicial exposition of the Constitution... | |
 | Joseph Gales - 1855 - 966 sider
...debtor from a debt existing at the time the law was passed is void, as being repugnant to that clause of the Constitution of the United States which prohibits...passing any law "impairing the obligation of contracts." Although I do not consider myself, as a legislator, bound by judicial exposition of the Constitution... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1855 - 964 sider
...existing at the time the law was passed is void, as being repugnant to that clause of the Constitution ol the United States which prohibits a State from passing any law "impairing the obligation of contracts." Although I do not consider myself, as a legislator, bound by judicial exposition of the Constitution... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (7th Circuit), John McLean - 1856 - 686 sider
...operate in any case where marriage and seizen concurred before the law was passed. There is nothing in the constitution of the United States which prohibits a State from passing a retrospective law. In Saterlee v. Matheson, 2 Peters, 380, it was held, that no part Phillis Johnston... | |
 | Richard Peters - 1860 - 836 sider
...which deed was executed under the patent. By the court : — This is not a case within the clause of the constitution of the United States, which prohibits a state from passing laws which shall impair the obligation of contracts. The only contract made by the state, is a grant... | |
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... the Constitution of the United States which prohibits a State from passing any law impairing the obligation of a contract. Whatever is granted is secured subject only to the limitations and reservations in the charter or in the laws or constitutions... 
