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Definition of Impairing
1. impair [v] - See also: impair
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impairing
Literary usage of Impairing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reportsby Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"But further: No State shall pass any law "impairing the obligation of contracts.
... Does this prohibit the power of impairing contracts, or the exercise of ..."
2. A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations which Rest Upon the Legislative by Thomas McIntyre Cooley (1903)
"The Constitution of the United States also forbids the States passing any law
impairing the obligation of contracts.4 It ia i ..."
3. Political Science and Comparative Constitutional Law by John William Burgess (1890)
"The commonwealths are inhibited from passing any law impairing the obligation of
... 4 The impairing of the obligation must be made by a provision of the ..."
4. Handbook of American Constitutional Law by Henry Campbell Black (1910)
"The prohibition again it impairing the obligation of contracts applies not only
to the ordinary statutes of the state, and the ordinances of its ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law and Proceedings in Bankruptcy by Frank Olds Loveland (1912)
"State insolvent laws with reference to impairing the obligation of a contract.
The constitution expressly forbids a state passing any law impairing the ..."
6. The General Principles of Constitutional Law in the United States of America by Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin (1898)
"SECTION I. — LAWS impairing THE OBLIGATION OF CONTRACTS. Tlie Constitution.
— Among the powers forbidden to the States by the Constitution is the power to ..."
7. Cyclopedia of the Law of Private Corporations by William Meade Fletcher (1919)
"... as impairing the obligations of a stockholder who dissents therefrom with the
bank and with the state.92 § 4317. -- impairing or defeating objects of ..."
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