 | United States. Supreme Court - 1820 - 662 頁
...this art. It is contended to be a violation of that part of the Constitution of the United States, which forbids a State to pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts. Much reason is furnished by the record for presuming the consent of the proprietors to this... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1838 - 398 頁
...decisions, a contract. The question, then, is, whether it falls within the scope of tliat clause in the federal constitution, which forbids a state to pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts. It has been asserted, that it does come wnhin the scope of that provision; and I suppose... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 頁
...of this act. It is contended to be a violation of that part of the constitution of the United States which forbids a state to pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts. Much reason is furnished by the record for presuming the consent of the proprietors to this... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1885 - 952 頁
...tort, growing outof the wrongful conversion of personal property, is not a contract within the meaning of that provision of the Federal constitution which...state to pass any law impairing the obligation of a contract; aliter, if the judgment wore founded upon a contract. Therefore, a judgment based on an... | |
 | Virginia. Board of Public Works - 1850 - 556 頁
...those cases where it is charged that the clause of the constitution of the United States is violated, which forbids a state to pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts. Your board feels no apprehension that the supreme court of the federal government will decide... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1870 - 738 頁
...the State, exercising authority under the State, on the ground that such authority was repugnant to that provision of the Federal Constitution which forbids...State to pass any law impairing the obligation of a contract. The purpose of the petition, the issue 'which it presented and sought to have determined,... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1873 - 1024 頁
...issued under this last act, is repugnant to the provision of the constitution of the United States, which forbids a State to pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts. These cases were heard together in this court. They involve a single, and the same question... | |
 | Wisconsin. Railroad Commissioners' Department - 1875 - 856 頁
...of the Wisconsin constitution reserving the right to alter or repeal corporate charters, is a clear violation of that provision of. the Federal Constitution...State to pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts. Wilmington 11. R. Co. rs. Reid, 13 Wallace, 266; Pacific RR Co. rs. McGuire, 20 Wallace,... | |
 | Wisconsin. Railroad Commissioners' Department - 1875 - 858 頁
...court in cases of this character is settled. Dodge rs. Woolsey, 18 How., 331; US Bank rs. Osborue, 9 Wheat., 738.' Argument. I. The act of the Wisconsin...and so often since announced. The case of Wilmington II. R. Co. rs. Reid, 13 Wallace, 266, Humphrey rs. Pigues, 16, ib. 247, and Pacific RR Co. rs. Maguire,... | |
 | John Barbee Minor - 1876 - 686 頁
...Legislature. seen, are protected by that clause of the Constitution of the United States (Art. I, § x. 1) which forbids a State to pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts. (Fletcher v. Peck, 5 Cr. 88; Terrett V. Taylor, 9 Cr. 43; Dartmouth Col. v. Woodward, 4... | |
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It is contended to be a violation of that part of the constitution of the United States which forbids a state to pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts. 
