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Extension of authority beyond corporate limits
Municipal subscriptions to works of internal improvement
Negotiable paper of corporations
Municipal military bounties.
OF THE PROTECTION OF PROPERTY BY THE "LAW OF THE LAND."
Magna Charta, chap. 29
351
351, note.
353-357
357
358-361
Constitutional provisions insuring protection "by the law of the
land".
Meaning of "due process of law" and "law of the land"
Vested rights not to be disturbed .
What are vested rights
Interests in expectancy
Legislative modification of estates
Control of rights springing from marriage
359
360
360, 361
Equality the aim of the law.
Strict construction of special grants
Privileges and immunities of citizens of different States
Judicial proceedings void if jurisdiction wanting
What constitutes jurisdiction
393
395
397
397, 398
398
Protection of by the Constitution of the United States
State constitutional provisions
Not well protected nor defined at common law
Censorship of the press; publication of proceedings in Parliament
414
414, note.
417
418
419
420-422
Common-law rules of liability for injurious publications.
Further cases of privilege; criticism of officers or candidates for
office
431-441
Petitions and other publications in matters of public concern.
434
Publication of privileged communications through the press
Accounts of judicial proceedings, how far protected
Privilege of publishers of news
445
Publication of legislative proceedings
The jury as judges of the law in libel cases
457
460
Fox's Libel Act
"Good motives and justifiable ends," burden of showing is on de-
462
Distinguished from religious toleration .
Does not preclude recognition of superintending Providence by
public authorities.
Nor appointment of chaplains, fast days, &c., nor recognition of fact
that the prevailing religion is Christian .
The maxim that Christianity is part of the law of the land
467
467 and note.
470
471
472-477
472
476
476, 477
477, 478
478
Respect for religious scruples
Religious belief as affecting the competency or credibility of wit-
479-485
Exemption of national agencies from State taxation
480
Exemption of State agencies from national taxation
Restrictions on State taxation by national Constitution
Power of States to tax subjects of commerce.
Discriminations in taxation between citizens of different States
Elements essential to valid taxation; purposes must be public
Legislature to judge of purposes
Unlawful exactions
Necessity of apportionment
Taxation with reference to benefits in local improvements
Local assessments distinguished from general taxation.
Apportionment of the burden in local assessments
Taxation must be uniform throughout the taxing districts
Road taxes in labor
Inequalities in taxation inevitable
Legislature must select subjects of taxation
The maxim de minimis lex non curat in tax proceedings
What errors and defects render tax sales void
CHAPTER XV.
490-494
495
497
498
498-511
502, 504
512
513
514
514, 515
. 516
517
520
521
521,522
Ordinary domain of State distinguished from eminent domain
Definition of eminent domain
523, 524
524
Not to be bargained away; general rights vested in the States
How far possessed by the general government
Strict compliance with conditions precedent necessary
Statutes for exercise of, not to be extended by intendment; pur-