 | 1846 - 632 pages
...plea of the defendant." This, it is insisted, is in violation of that provision in the constitution of the United States which declares that no State...any law impairing the obligation of contracts, and therefore void, inasmuch as it impairs a right conferred upon the bank by its charter to transfer promissory... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court, John Lansing Wendell - 1846 - 722 pages
...Cochran t>. Van Surlay. 3. The acts of the legislature are repugnant to that part of the constitution of the United States which declares that no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts. Const. US art. 1, § 10. 4. The act of a legislature is void... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1881 - 768 pages
...antecedent contracts; for this would be in violation of section 10 of article I. of the constitution of the United States, which declares that " no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts." — Ndson v. McCreary et al., 60 Ala. 301 ; Gunn v. Barry,... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1849 - 714 pages
...those States, nor by the concurrent Acts of both, consistently with that section of the Constitution of the United States which declares that " no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts;" that in ordinary cases, the State may repeal or modify, at... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1882 - 740 pages
...no power to divert them, the act of 1877 was in direct violation of that clause of the Constitution of the United States which declares that no State shall pass any law violating. the obligation of contracts. To hold that such a law operated by way of estoppel would be... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Chancery, Alonzo Christopher Paige - 1854 - 762 pages
...a private corporation became a contract executed, within the prohibitory clause of the constitution of the United States, which declares that no state...any law impairing the obligation of contracts ; and that a law altering the charter, in a material^ respect, is unconstitutional *and void. Neither that... | |
 | 1855 - 804 pages
...Township Committee of the township of Union to remove the dam, is in violation of the Constitution of the United States, which declares that no State shall " pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts." It is a virtual... | |
 | John Louis Taylor Sneed, Tennessee. Supreme Court - 1857 - 812 pages
...legislation is unconstitutional and void. The Constitution of the United States, art. I, § 11, provides and declares that no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts; and by art 5, of the Amendments to the : Constitution, it is declared that no person shall be deprived... | |
 | John Potter Stockton - 1858 - 652 pages
...township committee of the township of Union to remove the dam, is in violation of the constitution of the United States, which declares, that no state shall " pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts." It is a virtual... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1859 - 618 pages
...they are in conflict with that provision of the tenth section of the first article of the constitution of the United States, which declares that no state shall pass any "law impairing the obligation of contracts." The charter of this corporation was granted by the legislature... | |
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