This is plainly a contract to which the donors, the trustees, and the crown (to whose rights and obligations New Hampshire succeeds) were the original parties. It is a contract made on a valuable consideration. It is a contract for the security and disposition... Delaware Reports: Containing Cases Decided in the Supreme Court (excepting ... - Page 62by David Thomas Marvel, John W. Houston, Samuel Maxwell Harrington, James Pennewill, William Henry Boyce, William Watson Harrington, Charles L. Terry, William J. Storey - 1894Full view - About this book
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1819 - 816 pages
...contract for the security and dispoCoiiege sition of property. It is a contract, on the faith of Woodward, which, real and personal estate has been conveyed...letter of the constitution, and within its spirit also, unless the fact, that the property is invested by the donors in trustees for the promotion of religion... | |
| Maine. Legislature - 1840 - 1264 pages
...the charter. Among the reasons prominently assigned for this construction, are the following : — " It is a contract for the security and disposition...of the constitution, and within its spirit also," unless, says the opinion, its being invested in trustees makes a difference. It had been alleged in... | |
| John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...Hampshire succeeds,) were the original parties. It is a contract made on a valuable consideration. It is a contract for the security and disposition...letter of the constitution, and within its spirit also, unless the fact, that the property is invested by the donors in trustees for the promotion of religion... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1847 - 668 pages
...Marshall (Dartmouth College ». Woodward, 4 Wheat. 518), "a contract made on a valuable consideration. It is a contract for the security and disposition...a contract on the faith of which real and personal property has been conveyed to the corporation. It is, then, a contract within the letter of the constitution,... | |
| E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...Hampshire succeeds,) were the original parties. It is a contract made on a valuable consideration. It is a contract for the security and disposition...letter of the constitution, and within its spirit also, unless the fact, that the property is invested by the donors in trustees for the promotion of religion... | |
| E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...Hampshire succeeds.) were the original parties. It is a contract made on a valuable consideration. It is a contract for the security and disposition...property. It is a contract, on the faith of which, real aud personal estate has been conveyed to the corporation. It is then a contract within the letter of... | |
| George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional law - 1854 - 674 pages
...Hampshire succeeds), were the original parties. It is a contract made on a valuable consideration. It is a contract for the security and disposition...letter of the Constitution, and within its spirit also, unless the fact, that the property is invested by the donors in trustees for the promotion of religion... | |
| Daniel Gardner - International and municipal law - 1860 - 740 pages
...contract, on faith of which, real and personal estate had been conveyed to the corporation ; that it was a contract within the letter of the Constitution, and within its spirit, also. The court (p. 653) held the trustees to be the legal representatives of the donors as to the trust,... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1867 - 732 pages
...Hampshire succeeds — were the original parties. It is a contract made on a valuable consideration. It is a contract for the security and disposition...which real and personal estate has been conveyed to tbe corporation. It is, then, a contract within the letter of the Constitution, and within its spirit... | |
| John Norton Pomeroy - Constitutional law - 1868 - 570 pages
...consideration. It is a contract for the security and disposition of property. It is a contract, on the security of which real and personal estate has been conveyed...corporation. It is, then, a contract within the letter of the Con1 4 Wheaton's R. 518. a Ibid. 643. stitution, and within its spirit also." Opinions were also delivered... | |
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