The CHIEF JUSTICE delivered the opinion of the court.
The principles which determined the case of Bronson v. Rodes,
The obvious intent of the contract now before us was to secure payment of a certain rent in gold and silver, and thereby avoid the fluctuations to which the currency of the country, in the days which preceded and followed the establishment of our independence, had been subject...
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