| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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