 | 1821 - 328 páginas
...independent states with each other, by reason and natural justice. v. Municipal, or civil law, is the rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong. VI. Society is formed for the protection of individuals ; and states, or government, for the preservation... | |
 | Octavius Pickering, William Howard Gardiner - 1821 - 240 páginas
...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 private... | |
 | L. Murray - 1821 - 620 páginas
...applied to any one state or nation which is governed by the same laws and customs. Municipal law ii " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the Supreme Power in a Slate, commanding what it right, and prohibiting what is strong. The municipal law or England, or the... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - 1823 - 872 páginas
...governed by the same laws and customs. Municipal law, thus understood, is properly defined to be, " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by " the supreme...commanding what " is right and prohibiting what is wrong." The political writers of antiquity will not allow more than three regular forms of government : the... | |
 | George Crabb - 1823 - 704 páginas
...its limited sense, as respects the conduct of men in civil society, it is defined to be " A rule of conduct prescribed by the Supreme power in a state...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong, which is otherwise called municipal law. The Law of England is usually divided into the Common Law,... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1823 - 216 páginas
...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 be exercised... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 568 páginas
...THE PARTIES. AT the opening of these commentaries • municipal law was in general defined to be, " a rule of civil conduct, prescribed " by the supreme...commanding what is " right, and prohibiting what is wrong b." From hence therefore it followed, that the primary objects of the law are the establishment of... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 660 páginas
...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 ; and that... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1825 - 572 páginas
...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 ; and that... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 538 páginas
...the learned Mr Justice Blackstone says, in his Commentaries, vol. ip 34, ' is properly denned to be, a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong.' It must be apparent, therefore, to the smallest mind, that the essential requisites of good laws are these... | |
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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. 
