By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law; a law which hears before it condemns; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial. Southern Reporter - Page 431889Full view - About this book
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1912 pages
...said Mr. Webster, in the Dartmouth College Case, 4- Wheat. 518, "is most clearly intended the general law which hears before it condemns, which proceeds...only after trial. The meaning is that every citizen Bhall hold his life, liberty, property, and immunities under the protection of general rules which... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 2116 pages
...law is viewed in the sense in which the English phrase "law of the land" has long been used, namely: "A law, which hears before it condemns ; which proceeds...upon Inquiry. and renders judgment only after trial." Dartmouth College Case, 4 Wheat. 518, 4 L,. Ed. 629. The Supreme Court in construing the due process... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 2074 pages
...definitions. Webster expresses it tersely when he says: "By the 'law of the land' is meant the 'general law,' which hears before it condemns; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only on trial." The party to be affected by the process which deprives him of his life, liberty, or property,... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1148 pages
...act of power. In the language of Mr. Webster in his famous definition, 'It is the general law, the law which hears before it condemns, which proceeds upon inquiry and renders judgment after trial, so that every citizen shall hold his lite, liberty, property, and immunities under the... | |
| Benjamin James Lea - Law reports, digests, etc - 1880 - 820 pages
...Perhaps no definition is more often quoted than that given by Mr. Webster in the Dartmouth College case. By the law of the land, is most clearly intended the general law—a law which hears before it condemns; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only... | |
| Law - 1881 - 1116 pages
...language by Mr. Webster in the Dartmouth College case, is very often quoted. He said in that case: "By the law of the land is most clearly intended the...protection of the general rules •which govern society." (Dartmouth College vs. Woodward, 4 "Wheaton, 519.) Mr. Cooley says that the above definition is apt... | |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage - Women - 1881 - 1018 pages
...references with Mr. Webster's celebrated definition in the Dartmouth College case (4 Wheaton. 581) : By the law of the land is most clearly intended the...renders judgment only after trial. The meaning is, that ever)' citizen shall hold his life, liberty, property, and Immunitic.-, under the protection of the... | |
| Railroad Commission of Kentucky - Municipal services - 1910 - 576 pages
...been approvingly recognized by the Supreme Court (Hovey v. Elliott, 167 US 418), declares in part: The meaning is 'that every citizen shall hold his...protection of the general rules which govern society. In Violett v. Alexandria, 92 Va. 561, 569, the Virginia Court of Appeals quoted with approval the following... | |
| Vermont. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 790 pages
...was that of Mr. Webster, in his argument in the celebrated Dartmouth College case. He says it is the law " which hears before it condemns, which proceeds...upon inquiry, and renders Judgment only after trial. Everything which may pass under the form of an enactment, is not therefore to be considered the law... | |
| West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, Edgar P. Rucker - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 926 pages
...property, without due process of law, and the judgment of his peers" — Const, of W. Va., art. 3, sec. 10. "By the law of the land is most clearly intended the...protection of the general rules which govern society. Everything which may pass under the form of an enactment is not therefore to be considered the law... | |
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