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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 Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster: With an Essay on Daniel ... - Page 16
by Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - 1879 - 707 pages
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The Pacific Reporter, Volume 9

Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 988 pages
...§ 1943. Mr. Webster's oft-cited definition of the maxim, "by the law of the land," is as follows: "By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law; a law whicli hears before it condemns ; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial....
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The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 169

Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 1410 pages
...crown of the American bar in the Dartmouth College Case (spe 4 Wheat, loc. cit. 581 [4 L. Ed. 629]) : 'By the law of the land is most clearly intended the...trial. The meaning is that every citizen shall hold bis life, liberty, property, and immunities under the protection of the general rules which govern...
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The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 28

Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1200 pages
...Mr. Webster In the Dartmouth College Case of the term 'due course of the law of the laud,' which is, 'By the law of the land is most clearly intended the...upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.' A law which is enacted by the legislature In the exercise of its constitutional powers, and which affords...
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The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 67

Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 1294 pages
...definition is more often quoted than that given by Mr. Webster in the Dartmouth College Case: "By tbe law of the land is most clearly intended the general...proceeds upon Inquiry, and renders Judgment only after a trial. The meaning is that every citizen shall hold his life, liberty, property, and immunities under...
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The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 27

Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1208 pages
...Dartmouth College Case of the term 'due course of the law of the lam1.,' which Is: 'By the law of the laud is most clearly Intended the general law, — a law...upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial." A law which is enacted by the legislature In the exercise of its constitutional powers, and which affords...
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The Southern Reporter, Volume 56

Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 1060 pages
...Webster, in his argument in the famous Dartmouth College Case, defined "due process of law" as "A tribunal which hears before It condemns; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders Judgment only after trial." So far as the courts of Alabama, or those of any other state, are concerned, it is wholly Immaterial...
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American Constitutional Law, Volume 2

John Innes Clark Hare - Constitutional law - 1888 - 764 pages
...RR Co ., 2 Dutch. 13; Kelly v. McCarthy, 3 Bradf. 7; Powers ,- Bergen, principles, but " the general law, which hears before it condemns, which proceeds...liberty, property, and immunities under the protection of general rules which govern society. Everything which may pass under the form of an enactment is not...
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The New York Supplement, Volume 84

Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1290 pages
...with America," 1776, 29. Webster, in the Dartmouth College Case, 4 Wheat. 518, 4 L. Ed. 629, s,ays : "By the 'law of the land' is most clearly Intended...condemns; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders and 118 New York State Reporter judgment only after trial. The meaning Is that every citizen shall...
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The American and English Encyclopedia of Law, Volume 6

John Houston Merrill, Thomas Johnson Michie, Charles Frederic Williams, David Shephard Garland - Law - 1888 - 1002 pages
...special rule fora particular case, but, in the language of Mr. Webster, in his familiar definition, ' the general law, a law which hears before it condemns,...upon inquiry and renders judgment only after trial,' so ' that every citizen shall hold his life, liberty, property, and immunities under the protection...
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The New York Supplement, Volume 89

Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1246 pages
...particular case, but, in the language of Mr. Webster, in his familiar definition [of "law of the land"], 'the general law; a law which hears before it condemns,...upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial,' so 'that every citizen shall hold his life, liberty, property, and immunities under the protection...
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