 | 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... | |
 | Nathan Dane - Law - 1823 - 728 pages
...laws, this State power must be so exercised as not to violate the 1st art. 10 sect, 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 ;" also decided,... | |
 | 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...any law impairing the obligation of contracts ;" and to the fifth article of the amendments to the same constitution, which declares " that private property... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 shall pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts ; " also decided,... | |
 | 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, being... | |
 | Wisconsin. Legislature. Senate - Legislation - 1852 - 818 pages
...next objection is drawn from a supposed violation of the second part of Article 1 of the Constitution of the United States, which provides that " no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts." A law in existence at the time of making the contract, is deemed... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1849 - 714 pages
...mere police regulation for the protection of the health of the City, does not, in any way, violate the 10th sect, of the 1st art. of the Constitution of the United States, which prohibits the States from passing ex post facto laws, or laws impairing the obligation of contracts.... | |
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... 1 of the Constitution of the United States, which provides that no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of a contract, and also violated that clause of the fourteenth amendment of that instrument, which provides that no State shall deprive... 
