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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. "
Speeches and Forensic Arguments - Page 128
by Daniel Webster - 1830 - 520 pages
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Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of ..., Volume 52

California. Supreme Court - 1906 - 830 pages
...argument upon the Dartmouth College case, is the one most frequently adopted by the Courts. He says : " By the law of the land is most clearly intended the...upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial." If it be necessary to the judicial determination of the guilt of the accused that an appeal should...
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The Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations

Fred R. Shapiro - 1993 - 610 pages
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Legal Foundations of Capitalism

John Rogers Commons - 434 pages
...procedure is only the instrument. Law, said the court, approving the words of Daniel Webster, is " 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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Philosophy of Neurological Surgery, Page 568

Issam A. Awad, AANS Publications Committee - 1995 - 274 pages
...arbitrary and capricious decisions. Daniel Webster in Dartmouth v Woodwardw defined "due process" as: The law which hears before it condemns; which proceeds...inquiry and renders judgment only after trial." The concept of due process was contained within the charter of King Henry I in 1 100, the Magna Carta of...
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How to Read the Constitution: Originalism, Constitutional Interpretation ...

Christopher Wolfe - 1996 - 246 pages
...Hampshire's law of the land provision (again, widely regarded as equivalent to due process) in this way: "By the law of the land is most clearly intended the...upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial." This sounds "procedural," but it was used to attack the New Hampshire legislature's unilateral altering...
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Property Rights in the Age of Enterprise

1997 - 446 pages
...another: 'Have the plaintiffs lost their franchises by "due course and due process of law'"? he asked. 'On the contrary, are not these acts "particular acts...the land, is most clearly intended, the general law. . . . The meaning is, that every citizen shall hold his life, liberty, property and immunities, under...
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Natural Law and Contemporary Public Policy

David Forte - 1998 - 428 pages
...viz., due process of law. For example, in Dartmouth College v. Woodward,2^ Daniel Webster argued that: "By the law of the land is most clearly intended the...upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial." This sounds somewhat procedural, but Webster found it relevant to New Hampshire's unilateral altering...
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International Encyclopedia of Public Policy and Administration: D-K

1998 - 632 pages
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The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 379

1964 - 1100 pages
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South Western Reporter. Second Series: Cases Argued and ..., Volume 193

1946 - 1054 pages
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