 | 1902 - 1030 pages
...this court accepts that construction as binding here." "The provision in section 10 of article 1 of the constitution of the United States that no state shall pass 'any law impairing the obligation of contracts' does not forbid a state from legislating, within its discretion,... | |
 | John Marshall - 1903 - 832 pages
...several most interesting questions, but its eminent feature is the holding that the prohibition in the Constitution of the United States that "no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts" applies to the State, itself and prohibits the State from... | |
 | John Marshall - 1903 - 828 pages
...several most interesting questions, but its eminent feature is the holding that the prohibition in the Constitution of the United States that "no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts" applies to the State itself and prohibits the State from... | |
 | 1903 - 710 pages
...technical import, and in legal phraseology, refer to crimes, pains, and penalties. It is declared by 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. " "Where is the... | |
 | John Marshall - 1905 - 516 pages
...pronounce a legislative act to be contrary to the constitution. But the 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." In the same instrument... | |
 | 1905 - 836 pages
...contract, and every reason exists for treating it as a contract within the meaning of the provision of the Constitution of the United States that no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts." Says Thompson (Commentaries on the Law of Corporations,... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1906 - 1108 pages
...not, then the judgment of the court below is correct. It is provided in section 10 of article 1 of the constitution of the United States that no state shall pass any law "impairing the obligation of contracts," and in section 16 of article 1 of the constitution of... | |
 | Joseph Asbury Joyce, Howard Clifford Joyce - 1907 - 1016 pages
...from afterwards constructing such a line itself and in doing so it does not violate the provision of the Constitution of the United States that no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of a contract or that provision of the cities of the first class, and... | |
 | 1908 - 1150 pages
...the sole ground that the statute of the state which authorizes it is repugnant to the provision of the Constitution of the United States that no state 'shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts, is within the appellate power of this court. Chenango Bridge... | |
 | Harvard Law School. Library - 1909 - 1232 pages
...New York, 1883. Ex Post Facto Laws ; an explanation of the meaning of the Prohibitory Terms used in the Constitution of the United States, that " no State shall pass any ex post facto Laws or Laws impairing the Obligation of Contracts." 7 pntp 8vo. Exact Abridgement of that excellent... | |
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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. 
