Note 51 — Chapter VI
Max Farrand translation
Upon this point, cf. Cooley, Constitutional Limitations, 6th edition, Boston, 1890, Chap. VII. Even if the stipulation contained in the bills of rights that one can be deprived of his property only "by the law of the land" should not be embodied in the constitution by a state, a law transgressing it would be void by virtue of the fundamental limitations upon the competence of the legislatures. Loc. cit., p. 208.