allodium definition

• Rice v. Cayetano, 528 U.S. 495 (2000)

...The very object of the statutory definition here is to treat the early Hawaiians as a distinct... of the land, the King really owning the allodium, and the person in whose hands he placed the land,...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Individual Rights Under State Constitutions When the Fourteenth Amendment Was Ratified in 1868: What Rights Are Deeply Rooted in American History and Tradition?

Much of the academic writing about constitutional law and theory, both in the originalist and non-originalist camps, presumes that the Constitution protects at least some fundamental rights. Most originalists reject substantive due process and argue alongside Justice Hugo Black and former Judge Robert H. Bork that the only fundamental rights that are protected are the ones enumerated in the Constitution. Other originalists such as Judge Michael McConnell have written that the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects both enumerated and unenumerated rights so long as those rights are deeply rooted in history and tradition. This article then provides a list of all of the individual rights that were enumerated in the thirty-seven individual state constitutions i...

... of the blood, and it narrows the definition of treason in federal law.255 To what extent, then...3. Feudalism and Allodium.-We saw that the original federal Constitution pro...

• Texas Law Review
• Vol. 87 Nbr. 1, November 2008