 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 856 pages
...safety of our institutions depends in no small degree on a strict observance of this salutary rule. The United States cannot any more than a State interfere...much bound by their contracts as are individuals. If they repudiate their obligations, it is as much repudiation, with all the wrong and reproach that... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 1242 pages
...the fruits actually reduced to possession of con-j* tracts lawfully made." Again,* In the same* case: "The United States cannot, any more than a state,...much bound by their contracts as are individuals. If they repudiate their obligations, it is as much repudiation, with all the wrong and reproach that... | |
 | United States. Comptroller of the Treasury - Finance, Public - 1883 - 906 pages
...compensation, the lauds they have given this corporation to aid in the construction of its railroad. Xeither can they by legislation compel the corporation to...much bound by their contracts as are individuals. If they repudiate their obligations it is as much repudiation, with all the wrong and reproach that... | |
 | United States. Comptroller of the Treasury - Finance, Public - 1883 - 908 pages
...liy legislation compel the corporation to discharge its obligations in respect to the subsidy bands otherwise than according to the terms of the contract...much bound by their contracts as are individuals. If they repudiate their obligations it is as much repudiation, icith all the wrong and reproach that... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 676 pages
...to discharge its obligations in respect to the subsidy F bonds'otherwise than according to the laws of the contract already made in that connection. The United States are as much bouiid by their contracts as are individuals. If they repudiate their obligations, it is as much repudiation,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 840 pages
...in respect to the subsidy bonds Dissenting Opinion: Harlan, J. otherwise than according to the laws of the contract already made in that connection. The...much bound by their contracts as are individuals. If they repudiate their obligations, it is as much repudiation, with all the wrong and reproach that... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1434 pages
...corporation to discharge its obligations in respect to the subsidy bonds otherwise than according to the laws of the contract already made in that connection. The...much bound by their contracts as are individuals. If they repudiate their obligations, it is as much repudiation, with all the wrong and reproach that... | |
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The United States are as much bound by their contracts as are individuals. If they repudiate their obligations, it is as much repudiation, with all the wrong and reproach that term implies, as it would be if the repudiator had been a State or a municipality... 
