 | Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, Thomas Sergeant, William Rawle - Law reports, digests, etc - 1821 - 648 pages
...credit is an instance of the former — and the latter is exemplified in the power given to Congress to establish uniform laws, on the subject of bankruptcy, throughout the United States. But there is this difference in the two cases : when the prohibition is express, all power oi the States... | |
 | Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 836 pages
...provisions of a slate law on any subject. Ibid. 27. The power granted to congress by the constitution, " to establish uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcy throughout the United States," does not exclude the right of the states to legislate ou the same subject, except when the power is... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1867 - 652 pages
...being iu violation of the provisions of the constitution of the United States authorizing congress to establish uniform laws, on the subject of bankruptcy, throughout the United States, and the further provision that no State should pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts.... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1867 - 1310 pages
...being in violation of the provisions of the constitution of the United States authorizing congress to establish uniform laws, on the subject of bankruptcy, throughout the United States, and the further provision that no State should pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts.... | |
 | American Bar Association - Law - 1881 - 318 pages
...17. Upon the other subject Mr. King offered the following report: To the President and Members of the American Bar Association. By a resolution of the Association,...its courts to take cognizance of the matter. See ex parte Knowles, 4 Amer. Law Reg. 598. Hence it might be inferred that by special legislation of the... | |
 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1881 - 320 pages
...Committee was instructed to ascertain and report how far Congress can vest in the state courts tho power to execute a National Bankrupt Law (Rep. p....its courts to take cognizance of the matter. See ex parte Knowles, 4 Amer. Law Reg. 598. Hence it might be inferred that by special legislation of the... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1880 - 426 pages
...Constitution guarantees and secures.2 SECTION IV. — BANKRUPTCY. The Constitution. — Congress may also establish " uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcy throughout the United States." 8 This is a power which Congress may or may not exercise, and when it abstains from doing so, the States... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 676 pages
...although prohibiting states from passing laws imparing the obligation of contracts, allows congress "to establish * * * uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcy throughout the United States." Unlesp all parties in interest, wherever they reside, can be bound by the arrangement which it is sought... | |
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... by all civilized nations. It is not in conflict with the constitution of the United States, which, although prohibiting states from passing laws impairing the obligation of contracts, allows congress "to establish . . . uniform laws on the subject... 
