| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1819 - 816 pages
...of NewHampshire, mentioned in the special verdict, are repugnant to that clause of the constitution of the United States, which provides, that no State shall " pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts." Beside its intrinsic difficulty, the extreme... | |
| Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, Thomas Sergeant, William Rawle - Law reports, digests, etc - 1821 - 648 pages
...manifestly impairs contracts, and, therefore, violates the 10th sect, of the 1st art. of the constitution of the United States, which provides, that " no state shall pass any "law impairing the obligation of contracts;" and also, the provision of the 17th sect, of the 9th art.... | |
| Kentucky - Law - 1825 - 300 pages
...but be defined by legislative enactments. • But it is alleged that the clause of the constitution of the United States, which provides that " no State shall pass any ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts," prohibits the Legislatufc from exercising... | |
| Jacob D. Wheeler - Criminal law - 1825 - 612 pages
...this interment, because it is contrary to the 1 Oth section of the 1st article of the constitution of the United States, which provides that " no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts ;" and to the fifth article of the amendments to the same... | |
| Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1826 - 538 pages
...power must be so exercised, as not to violate the first article, section tenth, of the constitution of the United States, which provides, that " no state...imprisonment of the debtor's body is no part of his contract. ' At that time [1800], Congress passed a bankrupt law, nearly in the words of the principal British... | |
| Maryland. Court of Appeals, Richard W. Gill, John Johnson, Richard Wordsworth Gill - Law reports, digests, etc - 1838 - 572 pages
...government ought to be forever, distinct from each other," and of the 10th section of the constitution of the United States, which provides, that no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts, that to prove its unconstitutionality needs neither argument,... | |
| New York (State). Legislature. Senate - Government publications - 1834 - 510 pages
...necessary or useful; but they will take the liberty to remark, that the section of the Constitution of the United States which provides that no State shall pass any ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, appears to the committee to have a... | |
| New Hampshire. General Court. Senate - Legislative journals - 1840 - 916 pages
...other, the act of 1S38 might, perhaps, fall within the provisions of that clause of the constitution of the United States, which provides, .that' "no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts." But the relation in which the towns stand to the State,... | |
| Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 650 pages
...contract between Miller and Pennington ? Sec. 10 of art I of the constitution of the United States provides that " no state shall * * pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts." Sec. 13 of art I of our constitution is to... | |
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