176) The North Carolina Supreme Court held that this statute was unconstitutional, and based its decision in part on the "law of the land" clause from the North Carolina Bill of Rights, which provided that "no freeman ought to be taken, imprisoned or
disseized of his freehold, liberties or privileges, or outlawed or exiled, or in any manner destroyed or deprived of his life, liberty or property, but by the law of the land.
While press cards of almost 90 of our friends who were qualified to acquire [press cards] were virtually
disseized with the general director [of BYEGM] refusing to sign [their cards] despite the commission's approval, it is a monstrosity to allow the issuance of a life-time permanent press card to the deputy prime minister.
That no freeman ought to be taken, or imprisoned, or
disseized of his freehold, liberties, or privileges, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any manner destroyed, or deprived of his life, liberty, or property, but by the judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
299) The court explained that "no free man shall be
disseized of his freehold, or deprived of his property, but by the judgment of his peers or the law of the land.
This clause is found in Article 12, and states: "[t]hat no freeman ought to be taken, imprisoned, or
disseized of his freehold, liberties, or privileges, or outlawed or exiled, or in any manner destroyed, or deprived of his life, liberty or property, but by the law of the land.
The Magna Charta provided that no freeman would be
disseized, dispossessed, or imprisoned except by judgment of his peers or by 'the laws of the land.
I, [section] 19 ("No person shall be taken, imprisoned, or
disseized of his freehold, liberties, or privileges, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any manner deprived of his life, liberty or property, but by the law of the land.
