 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1819 - 816 pages
...Circumstances have not changed it. In reason, injustice, and in law, it is now what it was in 1769. This is plainly a contract to which the donors, the...trustees, and the crown, (to whose rights and obligations New-Hampshire succeeds,) were the original 644 CASES IN THE SUPREME COURT 1819. parties. It is a contract... | |
 | Law - 1843 - 530 pages
...all the rights which the original donors, &c. possessed while in being. The charter was held to be a contract, to which the donors, the trustees, and...crown (to whose rights and obligations New Hampshire succeeded), were the original parties, and clearly within the letter and spirit of the constitution.... | |
 | Maine. Legislature - 1840 - 1264 pages
...the charter. Among the reasons prominently assigned for this construction, are the following : — " It is a contract for the security and disposition...estate has been conveyed to the corporation. It is, then, a contract within the letter of the constitution, and within its spirit also," unless, says the... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...Circumstances have not changed it. In reason, in justice, and in law, it is now what it was in 1769. This is plainly a contract to which the donors, the...estate has been conveyed to the corporation. It is, then, a contract within the letter of the constitution, and within its spirit also, unless the fact,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1847 - 668 pages
...parties. " It is," in the words of Chief Justice Marshall (Dartmouth College ». Woodward, 4 Wheat. 518), "a contract made on a valuable consideration. It is...a contract on the faith of which real and personal property has been conveyed to the corporation. It is, then, a contract within the letter of the constitution,... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...the college, but also as respects the maintenance of the college charter." At page 548 he said : " This is plainly a contract to which the donors, the...estate has been conveyed to the corporation. It is then a contract within the letter of the constitution, and within its spirit also, unless the fact,... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...the college, but also as respects the maintenance of the college charter." At page 548 he said : " This is plainly a contract to which the donors, the...property. It is a contract, on the faith of which, real aud personal estate has been conveyed to the corporation. It is then a contract within the letter of... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional law - 1854 - 674 pages
...Circumstances have not changed it. In reason, in justice, and in law, it is now what it was in 1769. " This is plainly a contract to which the donors, the...estate has been conveyed to the corporation. It is then a contract within the letter of the Constitution, and within its spirit also, unless the fact,... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1858 - 572 pages
...the rights of the defendant/ 1 The opinion of the Court was delivered by Marshall, Chief Justice. c This is plainly a contract, to which the donors, the...estate has been conveyed to the corporation. It is, then, a con1 Webster to Wirt. Kennedy's Wirt, vol. ii., p. 82. It detracts somewhat from the value... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - International and municipal law - 1860 - 740 pages
...contributions from the States of New-Hampshire and Vermont, and from many persons in England and America, was a contract to which the donors, the trustees and the crown (to whose rights and obligations New-Hampshire had succeeded) were the original parties. The court add, (p. 644,) it was a contract... | |
| |
This is plainly a contract to which the donors, the trustees, and the crown, (to whose rights and obligations New Hampshire succeeds,) were the original parties. It is a contract made on a valuable consideration. It is a contract for the security and... 
