| United States. Supreme Court - 1884 - 666 стор.
...determination of this case there was necessarily drawn in question the construction of that clause of the Constitution of the United States which prohibits a State from passing laws impairing the obligation of contracts. The plaintiff in error or appellant claimed that he was... | |
| West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, Edgar P. Rucker - 1885 - 940 стор.
...mutuality of obligation ; and, therefore, does not come within the purview and true intent of the clause of the Constitution of the United States, which prohibits...any law impairing the obligation of a contract. The doctrine, that the charter of a private corporation is in and of itself a contract between the State... | |
| Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman - 1885 - 916 стор.
...points, any subsequent franchise would bo void, under the provision of the United States Constitution, which prohibits a State from passing any law impairing the obligation of a contract.2 But if there is no express restriction of that kind, none will be implied. And the grant... | |
| Samuel Sullivan Cox - 1885 - 770 стор.
...proscriptions were or were not, in effect, a bill of attainder. Were they, as such, obnoxious to that clause of the Constitution of the United States which prohibits a state from passing any " bill of attainder," or " ex post facto law." In the discussion of this question, the counsel left... | |
| Samuel Sullivan Cox - 1885 - 774 стор.
...proscriptions were or were not, in effect, a bill of attainder. Were they, as such, obnoxious to that clause of the Constitution of the United States which prohibits a state from passing any "bill of attainder," or " ex post facto law." In the discussion of this question, the counsel left... | |
| Samuel Sullivan Cox - 1885 - 766 стор.
...proscriptions were or were not, in effect, a bill of attainder. Were they, as such, obnoxious to that clause of the Constitution of the United States which prohibits a state from passing any " bill of attainder," or " ex post facto law." In the discussion of this question, the counsel left... | |
| 1885 - 892 стор.
...held a vested right which cannot be withdrawn by subsequent legislation, because of the provision of the constitution of the United States which prohibits a state from passing a law impairing the obligation of a contract. If it was competent for the general assembly to make... | |
| Georgia. Supreme Court - 1885 - 950 стор.
...unconstitutional, unless its unconstitutionality is clear and manifest, but in view of that provision of the constitution of the United States which prohibits a state from passing laws which impair the obligations of contracts, as well as provisions of our own state constitution... | |
| 1887 - 956 стор.
...Company, and so are in conflict with that portion of section 10 of article 1 of the federal constitution which prohibits a state from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. See Story, Confl. Laws, (8th Ed.) § 609; Com. v. Milton, 12 B. Mon. 212; S. С. 54 Amer.... | |
| Chicago and Alton Railroad Company - 1886 - 470 стор.
...contend "that the charter of a corporation is not a contract within the meaning of " that clause of the Constitution of the United States, which prohibits...passing any law impairing the obligation of a contract. "Whatever is granted is secured subject only to the conditions in the " charter, or in the laws or... | |
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