law of the land
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 74 U.S. 523 - Randall v. Brigham · 1868Most cited · 347 citing opinions
-"due process of law;" and this implies that there shall .be some form of lega] process, sufficient allegations or charge, due notice to t'he party proceeded against, the opportunity to answer to and contest the charge or allegations, and to be heard or tried in a legal and regular course of judicial proceedings, by an impartial judge.
How often courts cite the cases defining “law of the land”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “law of the land” — 474 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1850–1868
- ORIGINAL
that statutes which would deprive a citizen of the rights of person or property without a regular trial, according to the course and usage of the common law, would not be the law of the land in the sense of the ordinance.