Eason v. Spence

Under Article I, Section 17, of the State Constitution, no person can be deprived of his property except by his own consent or the law of the land. The law of the land and due process of law are interchangeable terms. S. v. Ballance, 229 N.C. 764, 51 S.E. 2d 731, 7 A.L.R. 2d 407. Tbe significance of the law of the land in its procedural aspect is laid bare by a famous phrase used by Daniel Webster in his argument in the Dartmouth College case. “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…