...could not be rescinded by a subsequent legislative act.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,...

...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.)...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...not be rescinded by a subsequent legislative act; such repealing act being void, under that clause of the constitution of the United States which prohibits...passing any law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,...

...not be rescinded by a subsequent legislative act.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...

...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...

...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,...