Donations from foundations

Usage examples of grants.

Court has sought to distinguish between grants of privileges, whether to individuals or to corporations, which are contracts and those which are mere revocable licenses, although on account of the doctrine of presumed consideration mentioned earlier, this has not always been easy to do.

It results that the investment of the Federal government with the powers of external sovereignty did not depend upon the affirmative grants of the Constitution.

Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.

It results that the investment of the federal government with the powers of external sovereignty did not depend upon the affirmative grants of the Constitution.

Not many years later, in 1795, the argument was advanced that the war power of the National Government is an attribute of sovereignty and hence not dependent upon the affirmative grants of the written Constitution.

It results that the investment of the Federal Government with the powers of external sovereignty did not depend upon the affirmative grants of the Constitution.

Wright, the contract clause had been considered in almost forty per cent of all cases involving the validity of State legislation, and of these the vast proportion involved legislative grants of one type or other, the most important category being charters of incorporation.

Nor does this numerical prominence of such grants in the cases overrate their relative importance from the point of view of public interest.

The question consequently arises whether the clause was intended to be applied solely in protection of private contracts, or in the protection also of public grants or, more broadly, in protection of public contracts, in short, those to which a State is party?

It is a matter of common knowledge that grants of this character are usually prepared by those interested in them, and submitted to the legislature with a view to obtain from such bodies the most liberal grant of privileges which they are willing to give.

January 24, 1818 with Spain was not self-executing with respect to certain land grants, he went on to say that if it had been it would have repealed acts of Congress repugnant to it.

Northwest Ordinance of 1787, the ultimate settlement of boundary disputes between States, and the passing of land grants by States, this clause, never productive of many cases, has become obsolete.

In his opinion for the Court, Justice Story took occasion to assert that grants of land by a State to a town could not afterwards be repealed so as to divest the town of its rights under the grant.

Congress be determined by the fair reading of the express and implied grants contained in the Constitution itself, without reference to the powers of the States.

In several decisions the Court, assuming, but without deciding, that a State law requiring a witness to answer incriminating questions would violate the due process clause, has then proceeded to conclude, nevertheless, that a State antitrust law which grants immunity from local prosecution to a witness compelled to testify thereunder is valid even though testimony thus extracted may later serve as the basis of a federal prosecution for violation of federal antitrust laws.