 | Edward Ingersoll - Law - 1821 - 882 pages
...constitution of the United States, a state has authority to pass a bankrupt law, provided such law does not impair the obligation of contracts within the meaning of the constitution. ART. 1. S. 10. And provided, there be no act of congress in force to establish a uniform system of... | |
 | Peter Force - Almanacs, American - 1828 - 294 pages
...Constitution of the U. States, a State has authority to pass a bankrupt law, provided such law dees not impair the obligation of contracts within the meaning of the Constitution, Art. 1, sect. 10, and proTided there be no act of Congress in force to establish a uniform system of... | |
 | William Sullivan - Books and reading - 1831 - 214 pages
...of the national constitution, a state has authority to pass a bankrupt law, provided such law does not impair the obligation of contracts, within the meaning of the constitution ; and provided there be no act in force, to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy conflicting with... | |
 | Maryland - Bankruptcy - 1831 - 256 pages
...Constitution of the United States, a State has authority to pass a bankrupt law, provided such law does not impair the obligation of contracts, within the meaning of the Constitution, Art. 1. §10, and provided there be no act of Congress in force to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy,... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1832 - 976 pages
...tribunal having decided, that a state has authority to pass a bankrupt law, provided such law does not impair the obligation of contracts within the meaning of the Constitution; and provided there be no act of Congress in force to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy, conflicting... | |
 | Esek Cowen, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1837 - 826 pages
...as a public nuisance. Jn any view which has been, or can be taken of this law, it cannot be said to impair the obligation of contracts, within the meaning of the constitution of the U. 5States, The argument before used, that here has been no appropriation of property to the public... | |
 | Thomas Francis Gordon - Commercial law - 1837 - 886 pages
...v. Crowninshield, 4 Wheat. 122, 192. Statutes of limitation and usury laws, unless retroactive, do — Sturgis v. Crowninihield, 4 Wheat. 206. The invalidity of a state law, as impairing the obligation... | |
 | Commercial law - 1847 - 554 pages
...constitution of the United States, a State has authority to pass a bankrupt law, provided such law does not impair the obligation of contracts, within the meaning of the constitution, and provided there be no act of Congress in force to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy, conflicting... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Constitutional history - 1848 - 414 pages
...Union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions ; to pass a bankrupt law, provided such law does not impair the obligation of contracts within the meaning of the constitution (art. i., sect . 10), and provided there be no act of Congress in force to establish a uniform system... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1854 - 616 pages
...constitution of the United States, a state has authority to pass a bankrupt law, provided such law does not impair the obligation of contracts within the meaning of the constitution (art. i., sect. 10), and provided there be no act of Congress in force to establish a uniform system... | |
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States, a State has authority to pass a bankrupt law, provided such law does not impair the obligation of contracts, within the meaning of the constitution, and provided there be no act of Congress in force to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy,... 
