Immunity

Rights of exemption onlyfreedom from what otherwise would be a duty or burden.

3 Heisk. (Tenn.) 306.

An exemption from Serving in an of Sce, or performing duties which the law generally requires other citizens to perform. See Dig. lib.

50, tit. 6; 1 Chit. Crim. Law, 821; 4 Har. & McH. (Md.) 341.

IMPAIRING THE OBLIGATION OF A contract. Any law, which enlarges, abridges, or in any manner changes the intention of the parties to the contract when it is discovered, necessarily impairs the contract itself, which is but the evidence of that intention.

11 Wheaton (U. S.) 256.

Any law impairs the obligation which renders the contract in itself less valuable or less enforcible, whether by changing its terms and stipulations, its legal qualities and conditions, or by regulating the remedy for its enforcement.

15 Rich. (S. C.) 105.

Whether the statute operates to impair debt or the remedy, the result is the same.

5 Lea (Tenn.) 112.