 | 1871 - 874 sider
...by the legislature, is still in force and the artificial body which it created still exists. Under the Constitution of the United States, -which prohibits a state from passing any act which impairs the obligation of contracts, it may be doubted whether it would be possible even... | |
 | John Pendleton Kennedy - 1872 - 652 sider
...of a banking corporation, is not restrained or forbidden by that clause of the Federal Constitution which prohibits a State from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. 5. That " a bank charter is a grant of privilege and not property.'" 6. That a grant of privilege,... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1873 - 518 sider
...subsequent statute authorizing a tax to be levied on the lands, is not a violation of that clause in the constitution of the United States which prohibits a state from passing any laws impairing the obligation of contracts. Armstrong and others v. Treasurer of Athens Count}', 235.... | |
 | Samuel Alfred Foot - 1873 - 518 sider
...of popular legislation. Every association is a contract between the parties, which is protected by the Constitution of the United States, which prohibits a state from passing a " law impairing the obligation of contracts." These associations, therefore, must continue for the... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1874 - 820 sider
...Moore v. State. State, which was protected by that clause of the 10th section cf the 1st article of the constitution of the United States, which prohibits...passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. On the part of the State, it is contended that the said act of incorporation conferred a privilege... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1874 - 768 sider
...in violation of that proMitchell rs. Cothrans and Elliott. vision of the Constitution of the Unite! States which prohibits a State from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. I consider this decision as fully settling the much discussed question of the constitutionality of... | |
 | John H. Smyth - 1875 - 486 sider
...not be rescinded by a subsequent legislative act. Such repealing act being void under the clause of the Constitution of the United States, which prohibits...passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. 4 § 42. With regard to past transactions, the legislature cannot substitute a nugatory remedy for... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1875 - 732 sider
...ticket, was a contract between the corporators and the State, which was protected by that clause of the Constitution of the United States which prohibits...passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts; that as appeared by the opinion of the Supreme Court in the case appended to the transcript of the... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1875 - 1070 sider
...Watson v. Mercer, 8 Peters R. 88, 110. The other provision of the constitution relied upon is that which prohibits a state from passing any law impairing the obligation of a contract. It seems very clear, however, that the statute, so far from invalidating the contract,... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1876 - 752 sider
...that the consideration of his note was a legal and valid one, is not in violation of that provision of the constitution of the United States which prohibits a state from passing any law impairhig the obligation of contracts. Judgment affirmed. McCAY, Judge, concurred, but furnished no... | |
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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... 
