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... Webster and His Master-pieces - Page 40by Benjamin Franklin Tefft - 1854Full view - About this book
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1819 - 816 pages
...proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial. The meaning is, that every citizen shall hold his life, liberty, property, and immunities,...protection of the general rules which govern society. Every thing which may pass under the form of an enactaent, is not, therefore, to be considered the... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial. .The meaning is, that every citizen shall hold, his life, liberty, property, and immunities...of an enactment, is not therefore to be considered the'law of the land. If this were so, acts of attainder, bills of pains and penalties, acts of confiscation,... | |
| Law - 1832 - 504 pages
...proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only aAer trial. The meaning is, that every citizen shall hold his life, liberty, property, and immunities under...protection of the general rules which govern society. Every thing which may pass under the form of an enactment, is not therefore to be considered the law... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 568 pages
...Inst. 46. upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial The meaning is, that every citizen shall hold his life, liberty, property, and immunities under...protection of the general rules which govern society. Every thing which may pass under the form of an enactment is not therefore to be considered the law... | |
| 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
...proceeds upon inquiry and renders judgment only after trial. The meaning is that every citizen shall hold his life, liberty, property, and immunities under...therefore, to be considered the law of the land." This provision of the Constitution has been frequently, discussed in the decisions of this court. Among... | |
| 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
...The meaning is that every citizen shall hold his life, liberty, and property under the protection of general rules which govern society. Everything which may pass under the form of enactment is not the law of the land," — and apply it to this act, we find that provision is made... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1853 - 566 pages
...proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial. The meaning is, that every citizen shall hold his life, liberty, property, and immunities under...protection of the general rules which govern society. Every thing which may pass under the form of an enactment is not therefore to be considered the law... | |
| Connecticut. Supreme Court of Errors - Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 664 pages
...proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial. The meaning is that every citizen shall hold his life, liberty, property and immunities under...protection of the general rules which govern society." Cooley, in his Const. Limitations, 357, says : — " There is no rule or principle known to our system... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1860 - 568 pages
...property, and immunities under the protection of the general rules which govern society. Every thing which may pass under the form of an enactment is not...bills of pains and penalties, acts of confiscation, aots reversing judgments, and acts directly transferring one man's estate to another, legislative judgments,... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1860 - 840 pages
...is, that every citizen shall hold his life, 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 the law of the land.' " Ibid., p. 537. "The same doctrine has been declared in a very elaborate case... | |
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