 ... the Constitution of the United States which prohibits a State from passing any law impairing the obligation of a contract. Whatever is granted is secured subject only to the limitations and reservations in the charter or in the laws or constitutions...  A Treatise on the Law of Railways - Page 1321by David Rorer - 1884 - 1618 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Nathan Dane - Law - 1824 - 764 pages
...rescinded by a subsequent legislative act. Repealing act is void under that clause of the constitution of the United States, which prohibits a State from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. The legislature might have consented to the sale, on condition the exemption should be relinquished,... | |
 | Law - 1843 - 506 pages
...statute authorizing a tax to be levied on the lands is not a violation of that clause in the constitution of the United States, which prohibits a state from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. Armstrong and others v. Treasurer of Athens County, 1 Wilcox, 235. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. (Private... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - Railroad law - 1833 - 812 pages
...their rates of fare and freight, unless protected by their charters." "This company, in the transaction of its business, has the same rights, and is subject to the same conKol, as private individuals under the same circumstances, must carry when called upon to do so,... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1855 - 968 pages
...existing at the time the law was passed is void, as being repugnant to that clause of the Constitution of the United States which prohibits a State from passing any law "impairing the obligation of contracts." Although I do not consider myself, as a legislator, bound by judicial exposition of the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1837 - 696 pages
...Warren Bridge Corporation, is repugnant to the 10th section of the 1st article of the constitution of the United States, which prohibits a state from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. In the discussion of this proposition many topics will come under examination; all, however,... | |
 | Henry Baldwin - Constitutional history - 1837 - 230 pages
...to a corporation, is a contract within the tenth section of the first article of the constitution, which prohibits a state from passing any law impairing the obligation of a contract; or whether this prohibition applies only to contracts between individuals, or a state and individuals.... | |
 | Henry Baldwin - Constitutional law - 1837 - 236 pages
...to a corporation, is a contract within the tenth section of the first article of the constitution, which prohibits a state from passing any law impairing the obligation of a contract; or whether this prohibition applies only to contracts between individuals, or a state and individuals.... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell, Samuel Ames - Business enterprises - 1846 - 872 pages
...a subsequent legislative act; such repealing act being void, under that clause of the constitution of the United States which prohibits a State from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts.' The lands had afterwards been sold by commissioners, on application of the Indians for... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 782 pages
...reference to which, the State and* all contracted, is in violation of that section of the Constitution of the United States which prohibits a State from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. The first section of the law permits the State to sue without paying- the bonds. Such was... | |
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