 It prohibits the States from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts; it does not enjoin them to enforce contracts.  Massachusetts Reports - Page 450by Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1872Full view - About this book
 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 730 pages
...companies, are contracts, within the meaning of, and protected by, that provision of the constitution which prohibits the States from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts ; and, therefore, without an express reservation of power, the legislature cannot divest the private... | |
 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1839 - 658 pages
...intention, unless it manifestly violates Den ex dem. BKHDAN v. VAN RIPER. the salutarj provision in the constitution of the United States, which prohibits...any law " impairing the obligation of contracts." That instrument does not prohibit the states from passing restrospective laws generally, but only ex... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1827 - 682 pages
...compelled to act for selfpreservation. Its language is the language of restraint, not of coercion. It prohibits the States from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts ; it does not enjoin them to enforce contracts. Should a State be sufficiently insane to shut up or... | |
 | Maryland - Bankruptcy - 1831 - 256 pages
...compelled to act for self-preservation. Its language is the language of restraint, not of coercion. It prohibits the States from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts; it does not enjoin them to enforce contracts. Should a State be sufficiently insane to shut up or abolish... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...compelled to act for self-preservation. Its language is the language of restraint, not of coercion. It prohibits the states from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts ; it does not enjoin them to enforce contracts. Should a state be sufficiently insane to shut up or... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1844 - 820 pages
...of the state constitution, or with any portion of the United States constitution, unless it be that which prohibits the states from passing any " law impairing the obligation of contracts." Art. I., sec. 10. The general power of the legislature to take private property for public uses, upon... | |
 | Samuel Owen - Law - 1845 - 434 pages
...think otherwise. That end was fully accomplished by another clause of the constitution, which directly prohibits the states from passing any law " impairing the obligation of contracts." The mrrc existence of the bankrupt power has not even touched the jurisdiction of the state legislatures.... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1848 - 712 pages
...charter of the Irwinton Bridge Company, is not a violation of the 10th section of the 1st article of the constitution of the United States, which prohibits...passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. Young vs. McKenzie, Harrison and others 38 to 40 COLLATERAL SECURITIES. 1. A note transferred before... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1854 - 600 pages
...contracts, are fully warranted by the spirit, if not the letter, of that clause in the Federal Constitution, which prohibits the States from passing " any law impairing the obligation of contracts." Executors of McDonogh et al. r. Murdoch et al. But when we come to consider the effect of a decision... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Law reports, digests, etc - 1855 - 884 pages
...Quere 1 This act, under a retrospective construction, held to be in violation of that provision of the constitution of the United States which prohibits...passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. Reported, 1 Comstock, 129. Burckle & Gebhard agt. Luce. BUHCKLE & GEBHAUD, Exrs., &c., plaintiffs in... | |
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