 One of the tests that a contract has been impaired is that its value has, by legislation, been diminished. It is not, by the Constitution, to be impaired at all. This is not a question of degree or cause, but of encroaching, in any respect, on its obligation...  Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the Territory of Utah - Page 301by Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, William S. Dalton, Alonzo Blair Irvine, H. Arnold Rich, Harmel L. Pratt - 1903Full view - About this book
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1876 - 628 pages
...Cal., 570 ; Dominie agt. Sayre, 3 Sand., 555). Planters' Bank agt. Sharp (6 How. [ U. £], 327), says : One of the tests that a contract has been impaired is, that People ex rel. Boyle agt. Trustees of the Village of Edgewater. its value has, by legislation, been... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (4th Circuit) - 1877 - 684 pages
...contracted to receive. In Planters' Bank v. Sharp et als., 6 How. 301, 327, Justice Woodbury says : "One of the tests that a contract has been impaired,...impaired at all. This is not a question of degree, or manner, or cause, but of encroachment in any respect on its obligation, dispensing with any part of... | |
 | 1878 - 560 pages
...owner, they are just as much a violation of the compact as if they overturned his rights and interests." "One of the tests that a contract has been impaired...impaired at all. This is not a question of degree or manner or cause, but of encroaching in any respect on its obligation — dispensing with any part of... | |
 | 1878 - 542 pages
...they are just as much a violation of the compact as if they overturned his rights and interests." " One of the tests that a contract has been impaired...impaired at all. This is not a question of degree or manner or cause, but of encroaching in any respect on its obligation—dispensing with any part of... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1878 - 808 pages
...they are just as much a violation of the compact as if they overturned his rights and interests." " One of the tests that a contract has been impaired...impaired at all. This is not a question of degree or manner or cause, but of encroaching in any respect on its obligation, — dispensing with any part... | |
 | Orlando Bump - 1878 - 474 pages
...contracts must mean their partial rescindment by legislative authority. Grimball v. Ross, TUP Charlt . 175. One of the tests that a contract has been impaired...that its value has by legislation been diminished. Planters' Bank v. Sharp, 6 How. 301; s. c. 12 Miss. 28. It is not every statute which affects the value... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1878 - 860 pages
...enforcing this duly are materially impaired, the obligation of the contract no longer remains the same." One of the tests that a contract has been impaired is that its value by legislation has been diminished. It is not a question of degree, but of encroaching in any respect... | |
 | Orlando Bump - 1878 - 474 pages
...it is obnoxious to the Constitution, otherwise not. Nevitt v. Bank, 14 Miss. 513. A contract is not to be impaired at all. This is not a question of degree or manner or cause, but of encroaching in any respect on its obligation, dispensing with any part of its... | |
 | 1879 - 582 pages
...pre-existing contracts property which at the date of the contracts was liable to their satisfaction. " One of the tests that a contract has been impaired...that its value has by legislation been diminished." Van Hoffman v. Quincy, a Wall. 552. Hence it follows that an exemption law which does not diminish... | |
 | 1897 - 2078 pages
...on the extent of the change which the law effects in the contract. Green v. Biddle, 8 Wheat. 1, 84. "One of the tests that a contract has been impaired...impaired at all. This is not a question of degree or manner or cause, but of en croaching in any respect on its obligation, dispensing with anv part of... | |
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