Paul v. Virginia
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court of Appeals of the State of Virginia. The case was thus: An act of the legislature of Virginia, passed on the 8d of February, 1866, provided that no insurance company, not incorporated under the laws of the State, should carry on its business within 'the State without 'previously obtaining a license for that purpose; and that it should not receive such license until it had deposited with the treasurer of the State bonds of a specified character, to…
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Error to the Supreme Court of Appeals of the State of Virginia. The case was thus: An act of the legislature of Virginia, passed on the 8d of February, 1866, provided that no insurance company, not incorporated under the laws of the State, should carry on its business within 'the State without 'previously obtaining a license for that purpose; and that it should not receive such license until it had deposited with the treasurer of the State bonds of a specified character, to an amount varying from thirty to fifty thousand dollars, according to the extent of the capital employed. The bonds to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
On the trial in the court below the. validity of the discriminating provisions of the statute of Virginia between her own corporations and corporations of other States was assailed. It was contended that the statute in this particular was in conflict with that clause of the Constitution which declares that ‘.‘the citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States,” and the clause which declares that Congress shall have power “to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several States.” The same grounds are urged in this…
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