 | Richard Peters - 1860 - 836 pages
...by the passage of a bankrupt law by congress. Adams v. Storey, Paine's CCR 79. 104. The provision of the constitution of the United States, that " no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts," does not apply to state insolvent laws. Ibid. 105. The... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court, Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - 1863 - 720 pages
...the question in the Dartmouth College case, whether the charter of the college was a contract, within the meaning of the clause in the constitution of the United States declaring that no state shall make any law impairing the obligation of contracts, called for all that... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1864 - 1154 pages
...by the importer nor in the original package in which the spirit was imported, are not repugnant to the clause in the constitution of the United States, that no State shall lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except &c., nor to the clause, that congress shall... | |
 | Michigan. Constitutional Convention - 1867 - 728 pages
...any contracts which we have already made. Those laws must remain in force, because the provision of the Constitution of the United States that no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts, would prevent their repeal. Mr. WILLAED. As I have already... | |
 | South Carolina. Court of Appeals, J. S. G. Richardson - 1867 - 316 pages
...is, so far as it affects contracts existing when the Act was passed, repugnant to the provision of the Constitution of the United States that "no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts," and the similar provision of the Constitution of this State,... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court - 1875 - 720 pages
...to the first and second, which may well be considered together. It is conceded that the provision in the Constitution of the United States, that no State shall pass any law to impair the obligation of contracts, applies as well to a contract to which the State is a party,... | |
 | Iowa. Supreme Court, Eastin Morris - 1870 - 726 pages
...engagements, bonafide and without fraud, previously formed." This is similar in spirit to the provision in the constitution of the United States, that no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of *12 *contracts. Under this clause of the constitution, George Temple... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1872 - 688 pages
...constitutional forms of government, it is sacredly protected against legislative violation, by the provision in the Constitution of the United States, that no state shall pass any "law impairing the obligation of contracts." And, also, by the similar provision in the Constitution... | |
 | West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1873 - 630 pages
...could not do so, for all the rights of the company under its charter were protected by the provision of the Constitution of the United States, that no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts. But no change was intended. When the Legislature declared... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1874 - 750 pages
...does not disturb it.f And, in this country, this principle is carried out and firmly established by the clause in the Constitution of the United States, that no State can pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts ; to which we shall have occasion more particularly... | |
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American people have said, in the Constitution of the United States, that "no State shall pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts. 
