 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1874 - 904 pages
...convenient than the old, or less prompt and speedy.3 " Without impairing the obligation of the contract, the remedy may certainly be modified as the wisdom of the nation shall direct."4 To take a strong instance; although the law at the The taxing power conferred upon... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 866 pages
...; Penrose v. ^rt« Cam** Co., 56 Penn. St. 48. " Without impairing the obligation of the contract, the remedy may certainly be modified as the wisdom of the nation shall direct. Slurges v. Crowninshield, 4 Wheat. 122, per MARSHALL, Ch. J. A statute allowing the defense... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - Bills of exchange - 1876 - 856 pages
...Sturges v. Crowninshicld, 4 Wheat. 122, 200, 207, the Chief Justice said : "The distinction between the obligation of a contract and the remedy given...obligation, has been taken at the bar, and exists in the nauire of things. Without impairing the obligation of the contract, the remedy may certainly be modified... | |
 | 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, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 630 pages
...shield, 4 Wheat. 200, Chief Justice Marshall said: "Without impairing the obligation of the contract the remedy may certainly be modified as the wisdom of the nation shall direct." In that case it was held that the remedy of imprisonment (which existed at common law)... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Samuel Townsend Douglass - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 598 pages
...illustrious patriots who framed our constitution, nor to the people who adopted it. 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." " Confinement... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1880 - 696 pages
...United 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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 1240 pages
...of Sturgea v. Ortneninihield (4 Wheat., 200), the late Chief Justice says : "The distinction between the obligation of a contract and the remedy given by the Legislature to erfforce that obligation, has been taken at the bar, and exists in the nature of things. Without impairing... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 988 pages
...that obligation exists in the nature of things, and without impairing the obligation of the contract, the remedy may certainly be modified as the wisdom of the nation may direct." Sturgea v. Crouninshield, 4 Wheat. 122, 4 L. ed. 529. The judgment of the Court of Civil Appeals for... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1088 pages
...Justice MARSHALL in Sturges v. Crowninshield, 4 AVheat. 122, where 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 modifled as the wisdom of the nation shall direct." That... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 1234 pages
...that obligation exists in the nature of things, and, without impairing the obligation of the contract, the remedy may certainly be modified as the wisdom of the nation may direct." In Waggoner v. Flack, 188 US 595, 23 Sup. Ct 345, 47 L. Ed. 609, it was held that where the act under... | |
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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... 
