 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 818 pages
...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... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1852 - 560 pages
...of the U; States says, " the distinction between the obligation of the contract and the remedy given to enforce that obligation, has been taken at the...nature of things. Without impairing the obligation of the contract, the remedy may certainly be modified as the wisdom of the nation shall direct." It becomes... | |
 | Asa Kinne - Courts - 1853 - 538 pages
...the law of the State where the process is used ; that the distinction between the obligation of the contract, and the remedy given by the legislature...taken at the bar and exists in the nature of things, and has been adopted by our courts. This decision is in perfect accordance with the following English... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 774 pages
...In a case already cited,* Mr. Chief Justice Marshall nsed this language, " The distinction 'between the obligation of a contract and the remedy given...nature of things. Without impairing the obligation of the contra^;, the remedy may certainly be modified as the wisdom of the nation shall direct. Confinement... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 770 pages
...taken at the bar, and exists in the nature of things. Without impairing the obligation of the contract, the remedy may 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... | |
 | California. Legislature. Assembly - California - 1858 - 780 pages
...Court of the United States, holds this language : " Without impairing the obligation of the contract, the remedy may certainly be modified as the wisdom of the nation (Legislature) shall direct." This doctrine, so announced by Judge Marshall, was afterwards affirmed,... | |
 | California. Legislature. Assembly - California - 1858 - 812 pages
...Court of the United States, holds this language : " Without impairing the obligation of the contract, the remedy may certainly be modified as the wisdom of the nation (Legislature) shall direct." This doctrine, so announced by Judge Marshall, was afterwards affirmed,... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1862 - 754 pages
...the February term, 1811>, of the Supreme Court of the United States, a distinction was taken between the obligation of a contract and the remedy given by the Legislature to enforce that obligation. Slurges v. Crownin shield, supra. And that without impairing the obligation, the remedy might be mqdified.... | |
 | Iowa. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 670 pages
...Constitution." And in Sturges v. Crowninshield, 4 Wheat, 122, it j§ said: "The distinction between the obligation of a contract, and the remedy given...nature of things. Without impairing the obligation of the contract, the remedy may certainly be modified as the wisdom of the nation shall direct." Justice... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1864 - 824 pages
...Constitution." And in Sturges vs. Crowninshield, 4 Wheat. 200, it is said : " The distinction between the obligation of a contract, and the remedy given...nature of things. Without impairing the obligation of the contract, the remedy may certainly be modified as the wisdom of the nation shall direct." Justice... | |
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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... 
