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" But to hold that such a characteristic is essential to due process of law, would be to deny every quality of the law but its age, and to render it incapable of progress or improvement. It would be to stamp upon our jurisprudence the unchangeableness attributed... "
New theories in physics - Page 367
1905 - 247 pages
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United States Reports: ... and Rules Announced at ...

United States. Supreme Court - 1884 - 828 pages
...immemorially the actual law of the land, and, therefore, is due process of law Opinion of the Court. But to hold that such a characteristic is essential to...attributed to the laws of the Medes and Persians. This would be all the more singular and surprising, in this quick and active age, when we consider...
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The Pacific Reporter, Volume 99

1909 - 1164 pages
...substance, has been immemorially the actual law of the land, and, therefore, is due process of law. But to hold that such a characteristic Is essential to...attributed to the laws of the Medes and Persians. "This would be all the more singular and surprising, in this quick and active age, when we consider...
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Supreme Court Reporter, Volume 4

United States. Supreme Court - 1884 - 732 pages
...substance, has been immemor-g tally the actual law of the land, and, therefore, is due process of law. * But to* hold that such a characteristic is essential to...attributed to the laws of the Medes and Persians. This would be all the more singular and surprising, in this quick and active age, when we consider...
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Cases on American Constitutional Law

Lawrence Boyd Evans - 1898 - 702 pages
...essential to due process of law, would be to deny every quality of the law but its age, and to render i: incapable of progress or improvement. It would be...attributed to the laws of the Medes and Persians. This would be all the more singular and surprising, in this quick and active age, when we consider...
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The American Judiciary

Simeon Eben Baldwin - 1905 - 426 pages
...century, it by no means follows that nothing else can be. To hold that every feature of such procedure ' ' is essential to -due process of law would be to deny...attributed to the laws of the Medes and Persians. . . . It is most consonant to the true philosophy of our historical legal institutions to say that...
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The Grand Jury: Considered from an Historical, Political and Legal ...

George John Edwards - 1906 - 306 pages
...Justice Matthews who delivered the opinion of the Court meets this argument in this language: "But to hold that such a characteristic is essential to...attributed to the laws of the Medes and Persians. "This would be all the more singular and surprising in this quick and active age when we consider that,...
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Constitutional Law: General Conceptions, Fundamental Rights, Liberty and ...

James Parker Hall - 1910 - 438 pages
...and this country was due process, it by no means followed that nothing else was. To hold otherwise "would be to deny every quality of the law but its...attributed to the laws of the Medes and Persians. . . . "The Constitution of the United States was ordained, it is true, by descendants of Englishmen,...
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The Journal of Political Economy, Volume 19

1911 - 952 pages
...securing a rationally conceived public end. To hold that the characteristic of long-accustomed usage is essential to due process of law, would be to deny...unchangeableness attributed to the laws of the Medes and the Persians These broad and general maxims of liberty and justice .... applied in England only as...
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American Law and Procedure, Volume 12

James De Witt Andrews - 1911 - 442 pages
...and this country was due process, it by no means followed that nothing else was. To hold otherwise "would be to deny every quality of the law but its...attributed to the laws of the Medes and Persians. . . . "The Constitution of the United States was ordained, it is true, by descendants of Englishmen,...
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Report of the West Virginia Employers' Liability and Laborers ..., Part 1

West Virginia. Employers' Liability and Laborers' Compensation Commission - 1911 - 282 pages
...to render it incapable of progress or improvement." (Twining v. New Jersey, 211 VS, 78, 101.) " And it would be to stamp upon our jurisprudence the unchangeableness...attributed to the laws of the Medes and Persians.... "This would be all the more singular and surprising * * * * when we consider that owing to the progressive...
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