New Harlem Past and Present: The Story of an Amazing Civic Wrong, Now at Last to be RightedNew Harlem Publishing Company, 1903 - Počet stran: 332 |
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Strana 208 - All grants of land within this State, made by the King of Great Britain, or persons acting under his authority, after the fourteenth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, shall be null and void; but nothing contained in this constitution shall affect any grants of land within this State made by the authority of the said King or his predecessors, or shall annul any charters to bodies politic and corporate, by him or them made before that day ; or shall...
Strana 161 - Bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and laws impairing the obligation of contracts, are contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation. The two former are expressly prohibited by the declarations prefixed to some of the State Constitutions, and all of them are prohibited by the spirit and scope of these fundamental charters. Our...
Strana 208 - ... void; but nothing contained in this Constitution shall affect any grants of land within this State, made by the authority of the said king or his predecessors, or shall annul any charters to bodies politic and corporate, by him or them made, before that day; or shall affect any such grants or charters since made by this State, or by persons acting under its authority; or shall impair the obligation of any debts contracted by the State, or individuals, or bodies corporate, or any other rights...
Strana 167 - The obligation of a contract is "the law which binds the parties to perform their agreement." Sturges v. Crowninshield, 4 Wheat. 122, 197; Story, op. cit., § 1378. This Court has said that "the laws which subsist at the time and place of the making of a contract, and where it is to be performed, enter into and form a part of it, as if they were expressly referred to or incorporated in its terms. This principle embraces alike those which affect its validity, construction, discharge and enforcement.
Strana 73 - Amsterdam in the merry month of June, the sweetest month in all the year, when Dan Apollo seems to dance up the transparent...
Strana 239 - ... Directions, Instructions, forms and ceremonies of Government and Magistracy fit and necessary for and concerning the Government of the...
Strana 241 - Higansetts, abutting upon the main land between the two rivers, there called or known by the several names of Connecticut and Hudson's river, together also with the said river called Hudson's river, and all the land from the west side of Connecticut river, to the east side of Delaware bay...
Strana 241 - Land of New England beginning at a certain place called or known by the name of St Croix next...
Strana 177 - When the Revolution took place, the people of each State became themselves sovereign ; and in that character hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters, and the soils under them for their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the Constitution.
Strana 240 - Law or other restraint, uncertainty or imperfection whatsoever to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding; although express mention of the true yearly value or certainty of the premises, or any of them, or any other gifts or grants by us or by any of our progenitors or predecessors heretofore made to the said James, Duke of York, in these presents is not made, or any statute, act, ordinance...