ALIENS-RIGHT TO OWN OR LEASE LAND-EFFECT OF "EQUAL PROTECTION" CLAUSE

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Abstract

Right of alien residents under the "equal protection" clause of- the federal Constitution received further delimitation in the Alien Land Law Cases, decisions handed down last November. Terrace v. Thompson (U. S. 1923), Adv. Ops. 35, and Porterfield v. Webb, Adv. Ops. 42. In the former case the court was concerned with a Washington statute passed to enforce a provision in the Washington constitution that forbade the ownership of land by any aliens other than those who had in good faith declared their intention to become citizens. The California statute in the second case differed chiefly in limiting its prohibition to ineligible aliens only. The court concluded that both statutes were constitutional and dismissed the appeals.

Recommended Citation

ALIENS-RIGHT TO OWN OR LEASE LAND-EFFECT OF "EQUAL PROTECTION" CLAUSE, 22 Mich. L. Rev. 353 (1924).
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