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
| Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - 1880 - 598 pages
...this subject is, that whatever belongs merely to the remedy, adapted for the acquisition of a right, may be altered according to the will of the state,...provided the alteration does not impair the obligation of a contract ; and such result is not worked where a substantial remedy is left to the parties according... | |
| 1889 - 586 pages
...remedy Impairs the obligation of the contract — lessens the value of the contract— it is void; and It is immaterial whether it is done by acting on the remedy, or directly on the contract itself. In either case it is prohibited by the constitution. 5 HON. 0. 187. e Id. 177. 7 Id. 172. Apropos of... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1897 - 1180 pages
...regulation of the remedy and did not direitly •fleet the contract; and Chief Justice Taue/ said: "Whatever belongs merely to the remedy may be altered according to the will of the shite, provide d the alteration does not impair Hie obl¡L' lion of ihe contract. But if lhat effect... | |
| 1915 - 1176 pages
...Mutual Insurance Co., 134 US 615, 10 Sup. Ct 589, 33 L. Ed. 994, it was held that whatever belonged merely to the remedy may be altered according to the will of the state, providing the alteration does not Impair the obligations of the contract To the same effect is Converse... | |
| Indiana. Appellate Court - 1915 - 886 pages
...Mut. Ins. Co. (1890), 134 US 994, 10 Sup. Ct. 589, 33 L. Ed. 994, it was held that whatever belonged merely to the remedy may be altered according to the will of the State, providing the alteration does not impair the obligations of the contract. To the same effect is Converse... | |
| California. Supreme Court - 1906 - 936 pages
...Barnitz v. Beverly, 163 US 118, does not apply to the remedy under a general judgment. Whatever belongs to the remedy may be altered according to the will of the state, no contract being thereby impaired. (Hill v. Merchants' Mut. Ins. Co., 134 US 527 ; New Orleans etc.... | |
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