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Planters' Bank Vs. Sharp

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jan 01, 1848

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  10. U.S. 301 (1848) U.S. Supreme Court Planters' Bank v. Sharp
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  11. U.S. 6 How. 301 301 (1848) Planters' Bank v. Sharp
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  12. Court, with the separate opinion of MR. JUSTICE McLEAN and the dissenting one of MR. JUSTICE DANIEL. PLANTERS' BANK v. SHARP
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  13. To review this judgment, a writ of error brought the case up to this Court. BALDWIN, VAIL, & HUFTY v. JAMES
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  14. Page 47 U. S. 318 MR. JUSTICE WOODBURY delivered the opinion of the Court. PLANTERS' BANK v. SHARP
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  15. Federalist, No. 44. Again, in Payne v. Baldwin
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  16. Michell v. Michell
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  17. Hearne v. Wigginton
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  18. Hotham v. Sutton
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  19. Campbell v. Prescott
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  20. Kent Comm. 281, and cases in those treatises, but seems now in some respects overruled. Earle v. Bank
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  21. connected with its business and debts, and through agents and notes as well as under its seal. Bank of Columbia v. Patterson's
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  22. dispose of property even in trust, if not inconsistent and unconnected with its express duties and objects. Vidal v. Girard's
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  23. properly own. It is its duty to pay in some way every debt. 6 Gill & Johns. 219. This Court, in the United States v. Robertson
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  24. promises or debts of the bank, payable to their holders, and imperative on them to discharge. See Bank of Columbia v. Patterson's
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  25. ought perhaps to be added that the courts of Mississippi once put a more limited construction on this charter. Baldwin v. Payne
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  26. for particular cases or contracts, without the consent of all concerned, is of very doubtful validity. Merrill v. Sherburne
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  27. by the bank, and this seems to have been the view of some of the court in 3 Smedes & Marshall 681, as well as in Hyde v. Planters'
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  28. a note by any body after a transfer. This was the view which they think influenced the legislature. See Planters' Bank v. Sharp
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  29. it is construed by them or us so as to conflict with prior rights obtained under contracts. See Commercial Bank v. Buckingham's
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  30. of redress on a contract is taken away, it will be difficult to see how the obligation of it is not impaired. Green v. Biddle
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  31. King v. Dedham
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  32. contract, and its value and usefulness restricted, and these of course impair it. Society for Propagating the Gospel v. Wheeler
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  33. but of encroaching in any respect on its obligation, dispensing with any part of its force. Commercial Bank of Rodney v. State
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  34. to its payment, and the body exonerated only as a matter connected merely with the form of the remedy. Cook v. Moffat
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  35. if done by the states, it must not, as here, apply to past contracts or it is held to impair their obligation. Ogden v. Saunders
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  36. due, and perhaps with a knowledge of the existence of such a set-off. Chief Justice Marshall, in United States v. Robertson
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  37. and not to the terms or obligations of any part of the contract itself, Cook v. Moffat
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  38. Towne v. Smith
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  39. itself are changed or impaired, it comes just as much within the spirit of the constitutional prohibition. Bronson v. Kinzie
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  40. an implied stipulation to that effect, and violates no part of the contract contained in the charter. Armstrong v. Treasurer
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  41. of Athens County, 16 Pet. 281. See Providence Bank v. Billings
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  42. places, it is no violation of the terms or obligation of the contract to authorize another. Charles River Bridge v. Warren
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  43. because it confirms rather than impairs their deeds, and carries out the original intent of the parties. Watson v. Mercer
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  44. or form of settling titles, this does not impair the force of the grant or take away any right under it. Jackson v. Lumpkin
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  45. Hawkins v. Barney's
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  46. their duties -- such as paying their notes on demand in specie, and that this does not violate any contract. Brown v. Penobscot
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  47. case of the Yazoo claims in Georgia, and no one can doubt that the obligation of the contract is impaired. Fletcher v. Peck
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  48. lands shall never be taxed, and a law afterwards passes to tax Page 47 U. S. 332 them. State of New Jersey v. Wilson
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  49. Cranch 164. Or that corporate property and franchises shall be exempt, and they are then taxed. Gordon v. Appeal
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  50. granted for one purpose and an attempt is made by law to appropriate them to another or to revoke the grant. Terrett v. Taylor
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