«The
old and familiar
maxim in Bacon's Legal
Maxims - De fide et officio judicis iton recipitur quaestio, sed de scientia, sive sit error juris, sive facti - expresses the distinction with reference to «due process of law» in the fourteenth amendment between the right of litigants in
state courts in cases arising under the local
state law to have the local
state law administered judicially and not arbitrarily, and their right to have free, fair and impartial
state tribunals.