...power over corporations created by it.18 §4290. Charter of corporation as contract. The Constitution of the United States declares that no state shall pass any "law impairing the obligation of contracts. " 20 As early as 1806, the Supreme Court of Massachusetts made...

...due process, which we have just been considering, has to do with the clause in the Constitution which declares that no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts. This doctrine is to the effect that every contract is made subject to the State's right to exercise its...

...opinion of the court in Walker v. Whitehead, 16 Wall. 317, 21 L. Ed. 357, said : "The Constitution of the United States declares that no state shall pass any 'law impairing the obligations of contracts.' These propositions may be considered consequent axioms In...

...States, and void. Mr. Justice Compton, who delivered the opinion of the court, said : " The Constitution of the United States declares that no state shall...impairing the obligation of contracts. * * * This prohibition on the lawmaking power is justly ranked among the wisest provisions contained in the Federal...

...points, maintains the affirmative views. Our remarks will be confined to this subject. The Constitution of the United States declares that " no state shall pass any * » * law impairing the obligation of contracts." A contract is the agreement of minds, upon a sufficient consideration,...

...prohibition against laws impairing the obligation of contracts — Dartmouth College case. The constitution of the United States declares that no state shall pass any "law impairing the obligation of contracts"; and after some difference of opinion, it is now settled beyond...

...Exr's v. Brooklyn, 4 NY, 195. Mr. Justice Davis delivered the opinion of the court : The Constitution of the United States declares that no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts; and the 25th section of the Judiciary Act of Sept. 24, 1789,...

...provision of the tenth section of the first article of the constitution of the United States, which declares, that, "No state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts." This is simply a limitation on the powers of the states, and not a positive grant of authority to the federal...

...habits of many state legislatures." More directly, as McDonald points out, section 10 of Article 1 declares that no state shall pass any law "impairing the obligation of contracts," this provision being "designed exclusively to prevent infringement of property rights."12 The historically...

...limits to the legislatures of the several states." In particular, said Marshall, "The Constitution of the United States declares that no state shall pass any . . . law impairing the obligation of contracts. Does the case now under consideration come within this prohibitory...