| United States. Supreme Court - 1819 - 816 páginas
...nothing from a grant. A contract executed, as well as one that is executory, contains obligationbinding on the parties. A grant in its own nature amounts to an extinguishment of the right of tht grantor, and implies a contract not to reassert thai right. A party is always estopped by his own... | |
| United States. Congress - 1825 - 738 páginas
...Government are transferable, or the proper objects of contract. A grant (and such is a charter) extinguishes the right of the grantor, and implies a contract not to reassert that right until the end of the charter; yet it is not competent for the Secretary or the President to take advantage... | |
| Alabama. Supreme Court, George Noble Stewart - 1835 - 526 páginas
...this, says Blackstone, differs in nothing, from a grant. A contract executed, as well as one which is executory, contains obligations binding on the...and implies a contract not to reassert that right. If under a fair construction of the constitution, grants are comprehended under the term contracts,... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1830 - 518 páginas
...between Georgia and the purchasers was executed by the grant. A contract executed, as well as one which is executory, contains obligations binding on the...and implies a contract not to reassert that right. If under a fair construction of the constitution, grants are comprehended under the term contracts,... | |
| James Kent - 1832 - 590 páginas
...cause maybe assigned for its invalidity, and though that party be the legislature of a state. A grant amounts to an extinguishment of the right of the grantor,...and implies a contract not to reassert that right. A grant from a state is as much protected by the operation of the provision of the constitution, as... | |
| Joseph Story - 1833 - 800 páginas
...impaired by state legislation. The constitution is not chargeable with such folly, or inconsistency. Every grant in its own nature amounts to an extinguishment...the grantor, and implies a contract not to re-assert it. A party is, therefore, always estopped by his own grant.1 How absurd would it be to provide, that... | |
| Indiana. Supreme Court, Isaac Newton Blackford - 1836 - 550 páginas
...as well as an executory contract, contains obligations binding on the parties; that a grant, in its nature, amounts to an extinguishment of the right...and implies a contract not to reassert that right; and that in fact, a grant is a contract executed, and that its obligation as such continues in force,... | |
| James Madison Porter - 1837 - 72 páginas
...between Georgia and the purchasers was exeeutfd hy the grant. A contract executed, as well as one which is executory, contains obligations binding on the...to an extinguishment of the right of the grantor, »nd implies a contract nut to reassert that right. A party is, therefore, always estopped by his own... | |
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