 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - 1829 - 492 lapas
...legislature to enforce that obligation, has been taken at the har, and exists in the nature of titings. Without impairing the obligation of the contract,...certainly be modified as the wisdom of the nation shall direct. Confinement of the debtor, may be a punishment for not performing his contract, or may... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1819 - 816 lapas
...legislature to enforce that obligation, has been taken at the bar, and exists in the nature of things. Without impairing the obligation of the contract,...certainly be modified as the wisdom of the nation shall direct. Confinement of the debtor may be a punishment for not performOF THE UNITED STATES. 20... | |
 | Kentucky - 1825 - 300 lapas
...taken at the bar, and exists in the nature of things. Without impairing the obligation of contracts, the remedy may certainly be modified, as the wisdom of the nation may direct," &c. Here it is seen, that the Judges of the Court of Appeals have said, in three cases, that the remedy... | |
 | David James McCord, South Carolina. Constitutional Court of Appeals - 1826 - 670 lapas
...remedy given by the legislature to enforce the obligation of it, is founded in the nature of things} without impairing the obligation of the contract,...remedy may certainly be modified as the wisdom of the state shall direct. Confinement of the debtor may be a punishment for not performing his contract,... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - 1835 - 618 lapas
...legislature to enforce that obligation, has been taken at the bar, and existsin the nature of things. Without impairing the obligation of the contract, the remedy may certainly be modified as the wisdomvof the nation shall direct. Confinement of the debtor, may be a punishment for not performing... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 lapas
...legislature to enforce that obligation, has been taken at the bar, and exists in the nature of things. Without impairing the obligation of the contract,...certainly be modified as the wisdom of the nation shall direct. Confinement of the debtor may be a punishment for not performing his contract, or may... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (1st Circuit), William Powell Mason - 1846 - 612 lapas
...Without impairing (23) Pothier Oblig. pt. 3, ch. 8, art. 1, § 679. li- Roy et al. r. Crowninshield. the obligation of the contract, the remedy may certainly be modified, as the wisdom of the nation shall direct." Again : " Statutes of limitation relate to the remedies, which are furnished in the... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1853 - 884 lapas
...limitation, which stand on the same ground, are no part of the contract. 4 Cond. Rep. 414. Without impairing the contract, the remedy may certainly be modified as the wisdom of the Legislature may direct. Id. 6 Ed. 537. The Legislature are prohibited by the constitution from depriving... | |
 | 1847 - 554 lapas
...legislature to enforce that obligation, has been taken at the bar, and exists in the nature of things. Without impairing the obligation of the contract,...certainly be modified as the wisdom of the nation shall direct." This is the true principle laid down in explicit terms. The doctrine that the remedy... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1871 - 818 lapas
...in the case of Sfurgess v. Crowninshield, 4 Wheaton, 200, says : "Without impairing the obligation, the remedy may certainly be modified as the wisdom of the nation shall direct. Confinement of a debtor may be a punishment for not performing his contract, or may be... | |
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The distinction between the obligation of a contract and the remedy given by the Legislature to enforce that obligation has been taken at the bar, and exists in the nature of things. Without impairing the obligation of the contract, the remedy may certainly... 
