Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, Volume 21Tribune Company Press, 1883 |
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Page 325 - 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.
Page 356 - States, then and in such case it may and shall be lawful for the President, by proclamation, to declare that the inhabitants of such State, or any section or part thereof, where such insurrection exists, are in a state of insurrection against the United States...
Page 782 - ... by an impartial jury of the county or district in which the crime shall have been committed ; and shall not be compelled to give evidence against himself.
Page 174 - September 10, 1909; whereupon the plaintiff moved the court to set aside the verdict and grant it a new trial...
Page 780 - That in all capital or criminal prosecutions a man hath a right to demand the cause and nature of his accusation...
Page 356 - States, and that all commercial intercourse between the same and the inhabitants thereof, with the exceptions aforesaid, and the citizens of other States and other parts of the United States is unlawful, and will remain unlawful until such insurrection shall cease or has been suppressed...
Page 780 - ... of his vicinage, without whose unanimous consent he cannot be found guilty ; nor can he be compelled to give evidence against himself; that no man be deprived of his liberty except by the law of the land, or the judgment of his peers.
Page 362 - That there must be notice to a party of some kind, actual or constructive, to a valid judgment affecting his rights, is admitted. Until notice is given, the court has no jurisdiction in any case to proceed to judgment, whatever its authority may be, by the law of its organization, over the subject matter.
Page 373 - And the court therefore further instructs the jury that if they believe from the evidence that the plaintiff, Myrtle L.