 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - 1829 - 492 strani
...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,...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,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1819 - 816 strani
...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,...remedy may 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.... | |
 | David James McCord, South Carolina. Constitutional Court of Appeals - 1826 - 670 strani
...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 strani
...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 strani
...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,...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,... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (1st Circuit), William Powell Mason - 1846 - 612 strani
...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... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1853 - 884 strani
...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 a party... | |
 | 1847 - 554 strani
...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,...remedy may 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... | |
 | James Kent - 1851 - 706 strani
...distinction between the obligation of a contract and the remedy given to enforce that obligation, exists in the nature of things, and that without impairing the obligation of the contract, the remedy may be modified as the wisdom of the nation shall direct. Imprisonment of the debtor is no part of the... | |
 | 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 - 1852 - 560 strani
...remedy given to enforce that obligation, has been taken at the bar and exists in the nature of things. Without impairing the obligation of the contract,...remedy may certainly be modified as the wisdom of the nation shall direct." It becomes important, then, to inquire what rights were conferred upon the plaintiff... | |
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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... 
