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...Marshall, to restrain the legislature from violating the right of property, from impairing the obligation of contracts respecting property, under which some...claim a right to something beneficial to himself. And because an apCli. 12] [Ch. 12 good, and unless restraint exists in the organic law are completely subject...

...power which produced it, the state legislatures were forbidden "to pass any law impairng the obligation of contracts," that is, of contracts respecting property,...that, since the clause in the constitution must in con struction receive some limitation, it may be confined, and ought to be confined, to cases of this...

...forbidden to pass any law impairins the obligation of contracts : that is. of contracts respecting propertv under which some individual could claim a right to something beneficial to himself." These selections from opinions delivered in this court which have carried the prerogative jurisdiction...

...impaired, without violating the Constitution of the United States." The contract clause extended to "contracts respecting property under which some individual...claim a right to something beneficial to himself," and a private corporation was one "endowed with a capacity to take property, for objects unconnected with...

...CAUSES. produced it, the State legislatures were forbidden '« to pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts,' — that is, of contracts respecting...must, in construction, receive some limitation, it maybe confined, and ought to be confined, to cases of this description ; to cases within the mischief...

...forbidden ' to pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts.' The contracts referred to were contracts respecting property, under which some individual could claim a right to something benencialto himself; and that since the clause in the Constitution must, in construction, receive some...

...which produced it, the State legislatures were forbidden "to pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts," that is, of contracts respecting property,...cases within the mischief it was intended to remedy. The general correctness of these observations cannot be controverted. That the framers of the constitution...