Mumford v. Wright

(Sherman, J., absent.) How far an eto post facto law can operate, to impair contracts; or how far we are^ bound to regard statutes of another jurisdiction, which we may apprehend to be unjust, is not necessary in this case to determine: Eor the defendants do not come within the statute relied upon, not being, at the time of the tender, citizens of, or resident in the state of Rhode Island; to persons of which description only the benefits of the act extend.