 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 1164 pages
...200, 4 L. Ed. 550, 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)... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 892 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 by the legislature to enforce that obligation, lias been taken at the bar, and exists in the nature of things. Without impairing the obligation of... | |
 | Lucius P. Little - Biography & Autobiography - 1887 - 690 pages
...illustrious patriots who formed our Constitution, nor to the people who adopted it. The distinction between the obligation of a contract and the remedy given...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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 890 pages
...constitution." And in Sturgee v. Crowninshield, 4 Wheat. 122, 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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 890 pages
...recently said, in a very elaborate opinion delivered by the chief justice, "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." Again:... | |
 | Hampton Lawrence Carson - Judges - 1892 - 472 pages
...Justice was careful to d.raw the distinction which exists, and has been recognized ever since, between the obligation of a contract and the remedy given by the Legislature, and it was held that so long as the former exists unimpaired, the latter may be modified as the wisdom... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - Contracts - 1893 - 734 pages
...the opinion of the court in that case, said : "The distinction between the obligation of a coutract and the remedy given by the legislature to enforce...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... | |
 | Ernest Wilson Huffcut, Edwin Hamlin Woodruff - Contracts - 1894 - 762 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... | |
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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... 
