 | United States. Congress. Senate. District of Columbia - 1931 - 72 pages
...the "rare instances," referred to above, occur, for the United States Supreme Court has ruled : The right of contract, however, is itself subject to certain...lawfully impose in the exercise of its police powers. This police power, according to the court, May be lawfully resorted to for the purpose of preserving... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia - 1933 - 1158 pages
..." rare instances," referred to above, occur, for the United States Supreme Court has ruled : " The right of contract, however, is itself subject to certain...lawfully impose in the exercise of its police powers." This police power, according to the court. " May be lawfully resorted to for the purpose of preserving... | |
 | Law - 1917 - 1128 pages
...the right to acquire property and to enter into contracts with respect to property, but it was said 'this right of contract, however, is itself subject...lawfully impose in the exercise of its police powers.' " Orient Ins. GO..V. Daggs, supra, 172 US 563, 19 Sup. Ct. 283, 43 L. Ed. 552. In Holden v. Hardy,... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1901 - 1328 pages
...been pronounced unconstitutional are not interfered with, on the ground that the ' right of contract is itself subject to certain limitations which the...lawfully impose in the exercise of its police powers.' All the same, there are difficulties ahead. First, by reason of the very terms of the Contract and... | |
 | Tomás Martinez - Business & Economics - 178 pages
...power of the state. The court stated: it 1the police power) doubtless has been greatly expanded in application during the past century owing to an enormous...are dangerous or so far detrimental to the health of employees as to demand special precautions for their well-being and protection . . . .29 However, while... | |
 | Myres S Mac Dougal, William Michael Reisman - Law - 1985 - 490 pages
...immediately picks up this concession by following quotation of the entire passage with this caveat: This right of contract, however, is itself subject...in the exercise of its police powers.... While this court has held, notably in the cases Davidson v. New Orleans, 96 US 97, and Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118... | |
 | Ellen Frankel Paul, Howard Dickman - Law - 1990 - 360 pages
...due process included at least a general right to contract, it added that "this right of contract... is itself subject to certain limitations which the...lawfully impose in the exercise of its police powers." 79 The Court then held that the exercise of the police power was in large measure a matter of legislative... | |
 | David P. Currie - Law - 1994 - 682 pages
...US 366, 391 (1898) (upholding maximum hour legislation for miners because the "right of contract ... is itself subject to certain limitations which the...lawfully impose in the exercise of its police powers"); Munn v. Illinois, 94 US 113, 145 (1877) (Field, J., dissenting) ("The doctrine that each one must so... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 978 pages
...others as they please. In Holden v. Hardy, 169 US 391, the supreme court of the United States says: "This right of contract, however, is itself subject...lawfully impose in the exercise of its police powers." (Thorpe v. Rutland, 27 Vt. 140 ;» Dobbins v. Los Angeles, 139 Cal. 183 r Odd Fellows Cemetery Assn.... | |
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This right of contract, however, is itself subject to certain limitations which the State may lawfully impose in the exercise of its police powers. While this power is inherent in all governments, it has doubtless been greatly expanded in its application... 
