 | Law - 1880 - 920 pages
...purposes. They are not included within the constitutional prohibition CONSTITUTIONAL LAW — Continued. which prevents States from passing laws impairing...corporations of property without due process of law. — I nion Pacific R. Co. v. L nited States, US Sup. Ct., Ch. Leg. N., Nov. 1, p. 57. Act of Congress... | |
 | United States. Comptroller of the Treasury - Finance, Public - 1883 - 906 pages
...within the constitutional prohibition which prevents States from passing laws imparing the obligations of contracts, but equally with the States they are prohibited from depriving person» or corporations of property without due process of law. They cannot legislate back to themselves,... | |
 | District of Columbia. Supreme Court (1863-1936), Franklin Hubbell Mackey - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 650 pages
...States from passing laws impairing the obligation of contracts; but, equally with the States, it is prohibited from depriving persons or corporations of property without due process of law: The Sinking Fund Cases, 99 US, 718, 719; Greene vs. Biddle, 8 Wheat., 106 ; Planters Bank vs. Sharp.,... | |
 | John Innes Clark Hare - Constitutional law - 1889 - 762 pages
...within the constitutional prohibition which prevents States from passing laws impairing the obligations of contracts ; but equally with the States they are...back to themselves, without making compensation, the lauds they have given this corporation to aid in the construction of its railroad. Neither can they,... | |
 | Walter Davis Dabney - Railroad law - 1889 - 300 pages
...governmental purposes. They are not included within the constitutional prohibition which prevents the State from passing laws impairing the obligation of contracts,...corporations of property without due process of law." ' The limitations upon legislative power growing out of these considerations have already been examined.... | |
 | New Mexico. Supreme Court, John Abbott, Paul A. F. Walter - Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 746 pages
...States; but this declaration should never be made except in a clear case." "The United States can not, any more than a state, interfere with private rights,...corporations of property without due process of law. They can not legislate back to themselves, without making compensation, the lands they have given this corporation... | |
 | Horace La Fayette Wilgus - Corporation law - 1902 - 1056 pages
...fund. The validity of the rest of the act is not necessarily involved. * * * The United States can not any more than a state interfere with private rights,...corporations, of property without due process of law. They can not legislate back to themselves, without making compensation, the lands they have given this corporation... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Employers' liability - 1908 - 64 pages
...legitimate governmental purposes. They are not included within the constitutional prohibition which preyenls States from passing laws impairing the obligation...corporations of property without due process of law. ,^.~——i-£—i^.- ~! _ Senator KNOX. Do you, Mr. Lathrop, or any other of you gentlemen present,... | |
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The United States cannot any more than a State interfere with private rights, except for legitimate governmental purposes. They are not included within the constitutional prohibition which prevents States from passing laws impairing the obligation of... 
