...vested rights, and that a contract existed between themselves and the State, to which the provision of the constitution of the United States that "No State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts" applied. The Superintendent held that as no company had...

...engagements, bona fide 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 irn pairing the obligation of contracts. Under this clause of the Constitution, the rule appears...

...it was established that a charter from the state to a private corporation created a contract within the meaning of the clause in the Constitution of the United States forbidding any state to pass any law impairing *the obligation of con- [51 tracts; and consequently...

...same," impairs the obligation of the contractstherein referred to, and is, consequently, repugnant to the clause in the constitution of the United States that no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts, and it is therefore void. Same—Delegation of Legislative...

...it creates a contract as to the mode and extent of taxation, which is protected by the provision of the constitution of the United States, that no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of a contract? There are two very recent decisions directly affecting...

...2, col. 6. 28. See, eg, National Anti-Slavery Standard, Feb. 13, 1864, at 1, col. 4 ("1 would have a clause in the Constitution of the United States, that no State shall make a law which recognizes any distinction of race"); New York Times, Feb. 17, 1864, at 8, col. 1...

...Construed, and Constitutions Vindicated (Richmond, Va.: Shepherd & Pollard, 1820); George M. Bibb, An Exposition of the Meaning of the Clause in the...States: That "No State Shall Pass any Ex Post Facto Law, or Law Impairing the Obligation of Contracts": And an Examination of the Opinions of the Court of Appeals...

...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...

...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...

...Roman law is rooted in the Admiralty law. (The China, 7 Wallace 53.) JUNIOR liOTES. On the relation of the clause in the Constitution of the United States, that "no State shall .... pass any .... law impairing the obligation of contracts," to MARRIAGE AND DIVORCEIt is now understood that this...