Durell Sims v. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections

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How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the increase in the homestead exemption in North Carolina’s state constitution could not be applied retroactively
• holding that an intervening law protecting a homestead from attachment to satisfy a judgment debt could not withstand scrutiny under the Contract Clause
• discussing 17 economic conditions in several states of the South after the 18 Civil War
• “The ideas of right and remedy are inseparable. Want of right and want of remedy are the same thing.” (quotation marks omitted)
• “[T]he laws which subsist at the time and place of making a contract enter into and form a part of it, as if they were expressly referred to or incorporated in its terms.”
• “It is also the settled doctrine of this court, that the laws which subsist at the time and place of making a contract enter into and form a part of it, as if they were expressly referred to or incorporated in its terms.”

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