Whatever belongs merely to the remedy may be altered according to the will of the state, provided the alteration does not impair the obligation of the contract. But if that effect is produced, it is immaterial whether it is done by acting on the remedy... American law reports annotated - Page 2271925Full view - About this book
| 1911 - 1318 pages
...pleasure the modes of proceeding In its courts In relation to past contracts as well as future. « * • whatever belongs merely to the remedy may be altered...on the remedy or directly on the contract Itself. In either case it Is prohibited by the Constitution." Cooley's Const Urn., at pages 405, 406, lays... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1911 - 1184 pages
...recovery of debts more tardy and difficult, yet it will not follow that the law ig unconstitutional. Whatever belongs merely to the remedy may be altered...on the remedy or directly on the contract itself. In either case it is prohibited by the Constitution. Thie subject came before the Supreme Court in... | |
| 1911 - 1162 pages
...prohibited by the Constitution." Cooley's Const. I л in., at pages 405, 400, lays down the law as follows: "Whatever belongs merely to the remedy may be altered...alteration does not impair the obligation of the contract; and it does not impair it, provided it leaves the parties a substantial remedy, according to the course... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1912 - 1598 pages
...Kearzey, 96 US 595, 24 L. ed. 793. Defendant does not deny that the legislature may change remedies. Whatever belongs merely to the remedy may be altered...alteration does not impair the obligation of the contract Bxit if that is produced, it is immaterial whether it is done by acting on the rexne&j, от &\те&з... | |
| John Bouvier - 1914 - 1124 pages
...103 US 720, 26 L. Ed. 602. See McGahey v. Virginia, 135 U. S. 662, 10 Sup. Ct. 972, 34 L. Ed. 304. Whatever belongs, merely, to the remedy may be altered...provided the alteration does not impair the obligation of a contract ; Hill v. Ins. Co., 134 US 515, 10 Sup. Ct. 589, 33 L. Ed. 994. It is admitted that a state... | |
| Thomas Johnson Michie - 1914 - 824 pages
...Court v. Rather, 48 Ala. 433. New Remedy Need Not Be as Prompt or Convenient. — Laws affecting merely the remedy may be altered according to the will of...provided the alteration does not impair the obligation of existing contracts; and it is held not to impair, when it leaves the parties a substantial remedy according... | |
| Eugene Wambaugh - 1915 - 1106 pages
...recovery of debts more tardy and difficult, yet it will not follow that the law is unconstitutional. Whatever belongs merely to the remedy may be altered...on the remedy or directly on the contract itself. In either case it is prohibited by the Constitution. This subject came before the Supreme Court in... | |
| Russell Whitman - 1916 - 746 pages
...was probably inserted, because the Supreme Court (Bronson v. Kinzie, 1 How. 311, 316) had said that whatever belongs merely to the remedy may be altered according to the will of the state. But though the form of a remedy may be changed, its substance must be protected ; otherwise there will... | |
| Hannis Taylor - 1917 - 1038 pages
...(Memphis v. United States, 97 TJ. S. 293; Tennessee ex rel. Bloomstein v. Sneed, 96 US 69) ; while whatever belongs merely to the remedy may be altered according to the will of the legislature (Hill v. Merchants' Mut. Ins. Co., 134 US 515), a state law so affecting the remedy which... | |
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