 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1819 - 816 pages
...legislature, which have no relation to the community in general, and which are rather sentences than laws ?" 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... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...legislature, which have no relation to the community in general, and which are rather sentences than laws ?" 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... | |
 | Law - 1832 - 504 pages
...which have no relation to the community in general, and which are rather sentences than laws ? " ' 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 aAer... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 744 pages
...without adjudication. If we take Mr. Webster's definition, which is terse, and as accurate as any, viz.: "By the 'law of the land ' is most clearly intended the general law, which hears before it condemns, which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial. The meaning is that every citizen... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 844 pages
...the definition given by Daniel Webster in the Dartmouth College Case, 4 Wheat. (US) 519, as follows : "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.... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1853 - 566 pages
...legislature, which have no relation to the community in general, and which are rather sentences than laws " ? 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - Legislators - 1854 - 560 pages
...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. The meaning is, that every citizen bhall hold his life, liberty, property, and immunities under the protection of the general rules which... | |
 | Connecticut. Supreme Court of Errors - Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 664 pages
...process of law, or due course of law. Mr. Webster's definition in the Dartmouth college case is, " 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... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 774 pages
...definition of it than is to be found in the argument of Mr. Webster, in the Dartmouth College case. " By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law which hears before it condemns ; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial. The meaning is, that every citizen... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 662 pages
...Dartmouth College case, has given a very correct definition of the phrase, " the law of the land," when he said : " By 'the law of the land,' is most clearly...intended the general law, which hears before it condemns, which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial. The meaning is, that every citizen... | |
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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. The meaning is that every citizen shall hold his life, liberty, property, and immunities,... 
