 | Illinois - 1877 - 182 sidor
...to contend that the charter of a corporation is not a contract within the meaning of that clause in 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 limitations and reservations in the... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Samuel Townsend Douglass - 1878 - 598 sidor
...executions upon pre-existing contracts, came within that clause of the 10th section of the first article of the constitution of the United States, which prohibits...state from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts, and were therefore inoperative and void. So far, however, as those adjudications bear in... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1878 - 860 sidor
...held a vested right, which cannot be withdrawn by subsequent legislation, because of the provision in the Constitution of the United States, which prohibits a State from passing a law impairing the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*... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1878 - 808 sidor
...266. The decisions of this court have given a uniform construction to the constitutional provision which prohibits a State from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. From them the following propositions are adduced : — 1. The obligation of a contract is... | |
 | Ohio - 1879 - 1232 sidor
...subsequent statute authorizing a tax to be levied on the lands, is not a violation of that clause of the Constitution of the United States which prohibits a state from passing any law impairing the obligations of contracts. Armstrong v. Treat, of Athens Co., ioO., 235. Where the state, by :iu act... | |
 | 1899 - 2060 sidor
...taxation solely upon the ground that the act imposing the tax was void, as violative of the provision of the constitution of the United States which prohibits a state from passing a law impairing the obligation of a contract. The court said: "The only reference to the constitution... | |
 | Tennessee Bar Association - 1889 - 1162 sidor
...•«<•<?., decided that a charter of incorporation is within the protection of that provision of the Constitution of the United States which prohibits...State from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. Prior to this decision it was customary to grant franchises and rights with but few restrictions... | |
 | Nathaniel Cleveland Moak - 1881 - 966 sidor
...tickets therein to be sold." Held, 1. That this provision is not in conflict with sect. 10, art. 1, of the constitution of the United States, which prohibits a state from " passing a law impairing the obligation of contracts." 2, That such a charter is, in legal effect, nothing more... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold - 1881 - 764 sidor
...the obligation of contracts." In Johnston v. Vandyke, supra, McLEAN, J., said : " There is nothing in the constitution of the United States which prohibits a state from passing a retrospective law." 6 McLean, Ml. In Noel v. Swing, 9 Ind., 37, tinder a statute which gave an interest... | |
 | 1882 - 992 sidor
...to contend that the charter of a corporation is not a contract within the meaning of that clause in 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 limitations and reservations in the... | |
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... the Constitution of the United States which prohibits a State from passing any law impairing the obligation of a contract. 
