| John Forrest Dillon - 1873 - 546 sidor
...of the national constitution which prohibits a state from impairing the obligation of a contract, so as to prevent the legislature from releasing it at...action brought for its enforcement in the name of the statc.1 § 33. Questions have arisen under special constitutional provisions respecting the authority... | |
| Ohio. Supreme Court - 1873 - 518 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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...State from 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... | |
| Georgia. Supreme Court - 1874 - 768 sidor
...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... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1875 - 732 sidor
...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...State from 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... | |
| John H. Smyth - 1875 - 486 sidor
...not be rescinded by a subsequent legislative act.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...State from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. 4 § 42. With regard to past transactions, the legislature cannot substitute a nugatory... | |
| Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1875 - 1070 sidor
...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 sidor
...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... | |
| Isaac Grant Thompson - 1876 - 842 sidor
...386; Watson v. Mercer, 8 Pet. 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,... | |
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