 Municipal law, thus understood, is properly defined to be a 'rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong.  Harvard Law Review - עמוד 141908תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Sir William Blackstone - 1807 - 686 דפים
...Holland. But I HAVE now gone through the definition laid down of a municipal law ; and have shewn that it is " a rule— of civil " conduct — prescribed — by the supreme power in a state— a positive law is discovered by experience to be useful and necessary onlv to men in certain... | |
 | James Beattie, Thomas Gray - 1809 - 408 דפים
...give an account of the laws of any particular country, we might begin with this definition. — Law is a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong.* But, taking the word law in a more... | |
 | James Beattie, Thomas Gray - 1809 - 414 דפים
...give an account of the laws of any particular country, we might begin with this definition.— Law is a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong.* But, taking the word law in a more... | |
 | Sarah Renou - 1817 - 250 דפים
...requisite on account of its rectitude and the high authority from which it is adduced. Municipal law is ' a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state. It regards man as a citizen, and bound to other duties towards his neighbour, than those of... | |
 | 1821 - 248 דפים
...bull or imperial rescript. What, sir, do we understand as being the import of the term law, but that it is " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a stale, establishing and ascertaining what is right and what is wrong" ? It is a rule, not the mere... | |
 | Octavius Pickering, William Howard Gardiner - 1821 - 240 דפים
...or mipelial rescript. What, sir, do we understand as being the import of the term law, but that И is " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a stale, establishing and ascertaining what is right and what is wrong"? It is a rule, not the mere... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1823 - 216 דפים
...containing the explanation above mentioned. It is as follows : — " But farther : " municipal Law is a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme " power in a state." J' For Legislature, as was before observed, is " the greatest act of superiority that can... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1825 - 572 דפים
...autho' rity I HAvE now gone through the definition laid down of a municipal law : and have shewn that it is " a rule — of civil " conduct — prescribed — by the supreme power in a state — rity which human laws can have, is that the power of the lawgiver is derived from God ;... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 660 דפים
...authority I HAVE now gone through the definition laid down of a municipal law : and have shewn that it is " a rule — of civil " conduct — prescribed — by the supreme power in a state — rity which human laws can have, is that the power of the lawgiver is derived from God ;... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1832 - 312 דפים
...&c." The argument by which Blackstone proves the latter part of his definition of municipal law, that it is " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong"* proceeds entirely on this uncertainty... | |
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