Dismal Swamp Canal Co. v. Commonwealth

Citations

• 81 Va. 220
• 1885 Va. LEXIS 24

Syllabus

<p>Lottery Privileges—Revocation—Constitutional—Section 4, act of 1816, conferring certain lottery privileges upon the D. S. C. Co. was, by implication, repealed by sections 11 and 12, Acts 1883-’84, p. 268, and those privileges were revoked. The bestowal of those privileges was not matter of contract, and their revocation was no impairment of the obligation of contract, and was constitutional. Justice v. The Commonwealth, ante, p. 209.</p>