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" The provision of the constitution never has been understood to embrace other contracts than those which respect property or some object of value, and confer rights which may be asserted in a court of justice. "
A Treatise on the Law of Non-residents and Foreign Corporations as ... - Page 292
by Conrad Reno - 1892 - 438 pages
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the ..., Volume 4

United States. Supreme Court - 1819 - 816 pages
...construed, may be admitted. The provision of the constitution never has been understood to embrace other contracts, than those which respect property,...rights which may be asserted in a court of justice. It never has been understood to restrict the general right of the legislature to legislate on the subject...
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The American Jurist and Law Magazine, Volume 6; Volume 24

1843 - 530 pages
...clause of the constitution. This provision of the constitution has never been understood to- embrace other contracts than those which respect property,...the general right of the legislature to legislate on the subject of divorces.1 Though marriage is, in one sense, a contract, as it is both stipulatory...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeals of ..., Volume 12

Maryland. Court of Appeals, Richard W. Gill, John Johnson, Richard Wordsworth Gill - 1845 - 560 pages
...of the court, observed, that the provision in the Constitution never had been understood to embrace other contracts than those which respect property...rights which may be asserted in a court of justice. Dartmouth College was a private eleemosynary institution, endowed with a capacity to take property...
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Commentaries on American Law, Volume 1

James Kent - 1832 - 590 pages
...of the court, observed, that the provision in the constitution never had been understood to embrace other contracts than those which respect property,...rights which may be asserted in a court of justice. Dartmouth College was a private eleemosynary institution, endowed with a capacity to take property...
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Outlines of the Constitutional Jurisprudence of the United States: Designed ...

William Alexander Duer - 1833 - 260 pages
...Corporators. 784. -This provision of the Constitution, however, has never been understood to embrace any other Contracts than those which respect property, or some object of value, and confer rights capable of being asserted in a Court of Justice. 785. Where the legal interest in literary or charitable...
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Documents Printed by Order of the Legislature of the State of Maine During ...

Maine. Legislature - 1840 - 1264 pages
...of the constitution never has been understood to embrace other contracts than those with respect to property, or some object of value, and confer rights which may be asserted in a court of justice. It never has been understood to restrict the general right of the Legislature to legislate on the subject...
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Speech of James Madison Porter ...: In the Convention of Pennsylvania, on ...

James Madison Porter - 1837 - 72 pages
...contract is to be found." " The provision of the Constitution has never been understood to embrace other contracts than those which respect property,...rights which may be asserted in a court of justice. "It never has been understood to restrict the general right of the Legislature to legislate on the subject...
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A General View of the Origin and Nature of the Constitution and Government ...

Henry Baldwin - 1837 - 230 pages
...varying circumstances. The term contract must be understood in a more limited sense, so as not to embrace other contracts than those which respect property,...rights which may be asserted in a court of justice;" 4 Wh. 428, 429; Dart. College case. "The principle was the inviolability of contracts. The plain declaration...
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A General View of the Origin and Nature of the Constitution and Government ...

Henry Baldwin - 1837 - 236 pages
...varying circumstances. The term contract must be understood in a more limited sense, so as not to embrace other contracts than those which respect property,...rights which may be asserted in a court of justice;" 4 Wh. 428,429; Dart. College case. "The principle was the inviolability of contracts. The plain declaration...
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The New-York review [ed. by F.L. Hawks]. Wanting no.6,8, Volume 2

Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 542 pages
...Justice, it was observed that the provision in the Constitution had never been understood to embrace other contracts than those which respect property or some object of value,' and which conferred rights which might be asserted in a court of justice. The contract in that case was...
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