 | John Elihu Hall - Law - 1809 - 538 pages
...obligation of contracts. The tenth section of the first article of the federal constitution declares, that no state shall pass a law impairing the obligation of contracts. What is meant by the terms "impairing the obligation of contracts?" Any measure, I should suppose,... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - New York (State) - 1831 - 758 pages
...considered as unconstitutional, in reference to the constitution of the United States, which provides that no state shall pass a law impairing the obligation of contracts. It is not every grant of power by the Legislative authority which has the form of a contract, and we... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1837 - 696 pages
...under the constitution of the United "States. That instrument provides in the fifth amended article, that no state shall pass a law impairing the obligation of contracts. The plaintiffs call the act of 1785, under which they claim, a contract; and argue, that the act of... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 398 pages
...down in the constitution, and any man may read and understand them, and among them is this provision, that no state shall pass a law impairing the obligation of contracts. I have eaid that the word contract is a word of universal use, and perfectly well understood, and that... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (3rd Circuit), John William Wallace - Court rules - 1849 - 584 pages
...it. And this relieves the case from the pressure of that clause of the Constitution, which declares that no State shall pass a law impairing the obligation of contracts." The case of The Susquehanna Canal Company v. Wright^ confirms the preceding views and decides w . ,,... | |
 | California. Legislature. Assembly - 1853 - 1284 pages
...upon State Legislation by Art. I., Sec. 10, of the Constitution of the United States, it is provided that " no State shall pass a law impairing the obligation of contracts." The proposition that the grant of a vested right, whether made by an individual or by a State, is a... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, Joel Tiffany - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 434 pages
...concerned, to be in contravention of that provision of the Constitution of the United States which declares that no State shall pass a law impairing the obligation of contracts. (Art. 1, § 10.) In Hicks v. Hotchkiss (7 Johns. Ch. 297), Chancellor Kent delivered an elaborate opinion... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Alexander James Dallas, William Cranch, United States. Supreme Court, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 708 pages
...manner, to the judicial authority. And when we view this object in conjunction with the declaration, " that no State shall pass a law impairing the obligation of contracts," we shall probably think that this object points, in a particular manner, to the jurisdiction of the... | |
 | Law - 1883 - 548 pages
...manner to the judicial authority. Aud when we view this object iu coujuuctiou with the declaration, ' that no State shall pass a law impairing the obligation of contracts; ' we shall probably think that this object points iu a particular manner to the jurisdiction of the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 726 pages
...validity of the bonds is not one of Federal jurisdiction. The Constitution of the United States declares,* that no State shall pass a law " impairing the obligation of contracts." The constitution of a State is undoubtedly a law within the meaning of this prohibition. A State can... | |
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Constitution, that no State shall pass a law impairing the obligation of contracts. 
