 | Law - 1843 - 530 pages
...different states themselves,— are equally within this prohibitory clause of the constitution. This provision of the constitution has never been understood...rights which may be asserted in a court of justice. It has never been understood to restrict the general right of the legislature to legislate on the subject... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1832 - 590 pages
...in delivering the opinion of the court, observed, that the provision in the constitution never had been understood to embrace other contracts than those...rights which may be asserted in a court of justice. Dartmouth College was a private eleemosynary institution, endowed with a capacity to take property... | |
 | Maine. Legislature - 1840 - 1264 pages
...of the constitution never has been understood to embrace other contracts than those with respect to property, or some object of value, and confer rights which may be asserted in a court of justice. It never has been understood to restrict the general right of the Legislature to legislate on the subject... | |
 | James Madison Porter - Charters - 1837 - 72 pages
...Surely in this transaction every ingredient of a complete and legitimate contract is to be found." " The provision of the Constitution has never been understood...rights which may be asserted in a court of justice. "It never has been understood to restrict the general right of the Legislature to legislate on the... | |
 | Henry Baldwin - Constitutional history - 1837 - 230 pages
...with varying circumstances. The term contract must be understood in a more limited sense, so as not to embrace other contracts than those which respect...rights which may be asserted in a court of justice;" 4 Wh. 428, 429; Dart. College case. "The principle was the inviolability of contracts. The plain declaration... | |
 | Henry Baldwin - Constitutional law - 1837 - 236 pages
...with varying circumstances. The term contract must be understood in a more limited sense, so as not to embrace other contracts than those which respect...rights which may be asserted in a court of justice;" 4 Wh. 428,429; Dart. College case. "The principle was the inviolability of contracts. The plain declaration... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...have given na is not to be so construed, may be admitted. The provision of the constitution never has been understood to embrace other contracts than those...rights which may be asserted in a court of justice. It never has been understood to restrict the general right of the legislature to legislate on the subject... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...have given us, is not to be so construed, may be admitted. The provision of the constitution never has been understood to embrace other contracts, than those...rights which may be asserted in a court of justice. It never has been understood to restrict the general right of the legislature to legislate o»the subject... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...constitutional prohibition. § 249. The language in this clause is general, and applies to all contracts which respect property or some object of value, and...rights which may be asserted in a court of justice. When the constitution was framed the term " coritracl" had a known legal meaning, as definite and as... | |
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The provision of the Constitution never has been understood to embrace other contracts than those which respect property, or some object of value, and confer rights which may be asserted in a court of justice. 
