impair the obligations of contracts

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• impairing the obligation of contracts — A law which impairs the obligation of a contract is one which renders the contract in itself less valuable or less enforceable, whether by changing its terms and stipulations, its legal qualities and conditions, or by regulating the remedy for… …   Black's law dictionary

• impairing the obligation of contracts — A law which impairs the obligation of a contract is one which renders the contract in itself less valuable or less enforceable, whether by changing its terms and stipulations, its legal qualities and conditions, or by regulating the remedy for… …   Black's law dictionary

• impair — im·pair /im per/ vt 1: to damage or make worse by or as if by diminishing impair ed health 2: to diminish the value of (property or property rights); specif: to diminish the value of (legal contractual obligations) to the point that a party loses …   Law dictionary

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• contract clause — n often cap both Cs: the clause in Article I, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution that prohibits states from passing any laws that render contracts invalid or impair the obligations under them Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster …   Law dictionary