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" ... the Constitution of the United States which prohibits a State from passing any law impairing the obligation of a contract. Whatever is granted is secured subject only to the limitations and reservations in the charter or in the laws or constitutions... "
Journal of the Senate of the State of Michigan - Page 478
by Michigan. Legislature. Senate - 1889
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A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional ..., Volume 6

Nathan Dane - Law - 1824 - 764 pages
...could not be rescinded by a subsequent legislative act. Repealing act is void under that clause of the constitution of the United States, which prohibits...passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. The legislature might have consented to the sale, on condition the exemption should be relinquished,...
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The American Jurist and Law Magazine, Volume 9; Volume 27

Law - 1843 - 506 pages
...subsequent statute authorizing a tax to be levied on the lands is not a violation of that clause in the constitution of the United States, which prohibits...passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. Armstrong and others v. Treasurer of Athens County, 1 Wilcox, 235. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. (Private property.)...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeals of ..., Volume 12

Maryland. Court of Appeals, Richard W. Gill, John Johnson, Richard Wordsworth Gill - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 560 pages
...State, for the use and benefit of one of its counties, is not within tho perview of that part of tho Constitution of the United States, which prohibits...State from passing any law impairing the obligation of contract, so far as to prevent the Legislature from releasing it at pleasure, or discontinuing an action...
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The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States ..., Volume 3

United States. Congress - United States - 1855 - 968 pages
...debtor from a debt existing at the time the law was passed is void, as being repugnant to that clause of the Constitution of the United States which prohibits...passing any law "impairing the obligation of contracts." Although I do not consider myself, as a legislator, bound by judicial exposition of the Constitution...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the ..., Volume 36

United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1837 - 696 pages
...establishing the Warren Bridge Corporation, is repugnant to the 10th section of the 1st article of the constitution of the United States, which prohibits...any law impairing the obligation of contracts. In the discussion of this proposition many topics will come under examination; all, however, connected...
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Reports of Cases at Law and in Equity Argued and Determined in ..., Volume 27

Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 782 pages
...into, and with reference to which, the State and* all contracted, is in violation of that section of the Constitution of the United States which prohibits...passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. The first section of the law permits the State to sue without paying- the bonds. Such was not the contract...
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A Treatise on the Law of Private Corporations Aggregate

Joseph Kinnicut Angell, Samuel Ames - Business enterprises - 1846 - 872 pages
...not be rescinded by a subsequent legislative act; such repealing act being void, under that clause of the constitution of the United States which prohibits...passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts.' The lands had afterwards been sold by commissioners, on application of the Indians for that purpose,...
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Reports of Cases at Law and in Equity Argued and Determined in ..., Volume 19

Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1858 - 764 pages
...not be rescinded by a subsequent legislative act. Such repealing act being void under that clause of the constitution of the United States, which prohibits a State from passing any law impairing the obligations of contracts." In the case of State Bank of Ohio vs. Knoop, supra, recently decided by...
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The New-York Legal Observer, Volume 8

Samuel Owen - Law - 1850 - 416 pages
...of the husband as tenant by courtesy of the wife's real estate, was repugnant to that provision of the constitution of the United States which prohibits...passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts. After a very able and learned opinion of the jndge, he ordered that the defendant should have jndgment...
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Practice Reports in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, Volume 4

Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1852 - 496 pages
...of the United States and consequently void ; that it is a statute in conflict with that provision of the constitution of the United States which prohibits...state from passing any law impairing the obligation of a contract. The argument is that the relation of husband and wife is created by a contract of the parties,...
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