| United States. Supreme Court - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 816
...true construction of the charter of 1 769. This is the point on which the cause essentially depends. If the act of incorporation be a grant of political power, if it create a civil institution to te employed in the administration of the government, or if the funds... | |
| 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 530
...of the constitution has never 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. It has never been understood to restrict the general right of the legislature to legislate on the subject... | |
| Maryland. Court of Appeals, Richard W. Gill, John Johnson, Richard Wordsworth Gill - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 560
...provision in the Constitution never had 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. Dartmouth College was a private eleemosynary institution, endowed with a capacity to take property... | |
| James Kent - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 590
...provision in the constitution never had 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. Dartmouth College was a private eleemosynary institution, endowed with a capacity to take property... | |
| New York (State). Legislature. Senate - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 438
...562. — [4 Wheaton US Rep. 518.] At page 629 of the same case, Chief Justice Marshall remarks : " If the act of incorporation be a grant of political power, if it create a civil institution, to be employed in the administration of the government, the subject is... | |
| Maine. Legislature - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 1264
...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... | |
| 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 706
...562. — [4 Wheaton, US Rep. 518.] At page 629 of the saune case, Chief Justice Marshall remarks : " If the act of incorporation be a grant of political power, if it create a civil institution, to be employed in the administration of the Government, the subject is... | |
| Henry Baldwin - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 230
...be understood in a more limited sense, so as not 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;" 4 Wh. 428, 429; Dart. College case. "The principle was the inviolability of contracts. The plain declaration... | |
| Henry Baldwin - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 236
...be understood in a more limited sense, so as not 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;" 4 Wh. 428,429; Dart. College case. "The principle was the inviolability of contracts. The plain declaration... | |
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