 | 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,... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage - 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... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - 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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1883 - 408 pages
...(to speak it once for all), by the due course and process of law." 2 hist. 46. Have the plaintiffs lost their franchises by "due course and process of...the land, is most clearly intended, the general law ja law, which hears before it condemns ; which proceeds upon inquiry, and Tenders judgment only after... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1883 - 1004 pages
...Judge COULEY, "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 con demns; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial. The meaning is that... | |
 | 1883 - 572 pages
...been given, was that of Mr. Webster in his argument in the Dartmouth College case. He says it ia 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... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1883 - 890 pages
...Judge COOLE v , ' is more often quoted than t hut g ¡vui by Mr. Webster in the Dartmouth College case: 'By the law of the land is most clearly Intended the general law ; a law which bean before It condemn.» : which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders Judgment only after trial. The... | |
 | Lorenzo Smith Boswell Sawyer, United States. Circuit Court (9th Circuit) - 1883 - 730 pages
...the Dartmouth College case, defined due process of law, or " the law of the land," as "the general law, which hears before it condemns, which proceeds...upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial." He adds: "Everything which may pass under the form of an enactment is not ' the law of the land.'"... | |
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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. 
