 | United States. Supreme Court - 1884 - 666 sider
...determination of this case there was necessarily drawn in question the construction of that clause of the Constitution of the United States which prohibits a State from passing laws impairing the obligation of contracts. The plaintiff in error or appellant claimed that he was... | |
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - 1885 - 774 sider
...proscriptions were or were not, in effect, a bill of attainder. Were they, as such, obnoxious to that clause of the Constitution of the United States which prohibits a state from passing any "bill of attainder," or " ex post facto law." In the discussion of this question, the counsel left... | |
 | 1887 - 956 sider
...Company, and so are in conflict with that portion of section 10 of article 1 of the federal constitution which prohibits a state from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. See Story, Confl. Laws, (8th Ed.) § 609; Com. v. Milton, 12 B. Mon. 212; S. С. 54 Amer. Dec. 532;... | |
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - 1885 - 770 sider
...proscriptions were or were not, in effect, a bill of attainder. Were they, as such, obnoxious to that clause of the Constitution of the United States which prohibits a state from passing any " bill of attainder," or " ex post facto law." In the discussion of this question, the counsel left... | |
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - 1885 - 766 sider
...proscriptions were or were not, in effect, a bill of attainder. Were they, as such, obnoxious to that clause of the Constitution of the United States which prohibits a state from passing any " bill of attainder," or " ex post facto law." In the discussion of this question, the counsel left... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1885 - 950 sider
...unconstitutional, unless its unconstitutionality is clear and manifest, but in view of that provision of the constitution of the United States which prohibits a state from passing laws which impair the obligations of contracts, as well as provisions of our own state constitution... | |
 | 1885 - 892 sider
...held a vested right which cannot be withdrawn by subsequent legislation, because of the provision of the constitution of the United States which prohibits a state from passing a law impairing the obligation of a contract. If it was competent for the general assembly to make... | |
 | Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman - 1885 - 916 sider
...points, any subsequent franchise would bo void, under the provision of the United States Constitution, which prohibits a State from passing any law impairing the obligation of a contract.2 But if there is no express restriction of that kind, none will be implied. And the grant... | |
 | Chicago and Alton Railroad Company - 1886 - 470 sider
...contend "that the charter of a corporation is not a contract within the meaning of " that clause of the Constitution of the United States, which prohibits..."State from passing any law impairing the obligation of a contract. "Whatever is granted is secured subject only to the conditions in the " charter, or in... | |
 | 1889 - 1132 sider
...consequently void so far as this mortgage is in question ; that it is in contravention of that provision of the constitution of the United States which prohibits a state from passing any law impairing the obligations of contracts. That it was intended to act retrospectively, and apply to mortgages existing... | |
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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... 
