 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 532 páginas
...the learned Mr Justice Blackstone says, in his Commentaries, vol. ip 34, ' is properly defined 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... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1827 - 916 páginas
...jiuproprmm ipsius cnitatis. A municipal law is completely expressed by the first branch of the definition, " A rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state." And the latter branch, " commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong,1' must either be superfluous,... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1832 - 312 páginas
...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...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong"* proceeds entirely on this uncertainty of meaning. " In order to do this completely (he says), it is... | |
 | Matthew St. Clair Clarke - 1832 - 864 páginas
...be given by implication. Blackstone says, " municipal law. thus understood, is properly defined tobe a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong.*' Agreeably to this definition, every law passed by a deliberative body is an act of sovereignty as to... | |
 | James Kent - 1832 - 590 páginas
...VARIOUS SOURCES OF THE MUNICIPAL LAW OF THE SEVERAL STATES. LECTURE XX. OF STATUTE LAW. MUNICIPAL law is a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a state. It is composed of written and unwritten, or statute and common law. Statute law is the express written... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1833 - 590 páginas
...Blackstone's definition of municipal law, betrays a similar confusion of ideas. According to him, Law is ' a rule of civil ' conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a State, com man d' ing what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong.' Were this the fact, there could be no... | |
 | 1833 - 578 páginas
...Blaekstone's definition of municipal law, betrays a similar confusion of ideas. According to him, Law is ' a rule of civil ' conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a State, command' ing what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong.' Were this the fact, there could be no bad... | |
 | Thomas Edlyne Tomlins - 1835 - 862 páginas
...protection. Cowell. MUNDICK. See Metal. MUNICIPAL LAW. Is defined by Blackstone, (1 Comm. Introd.) " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state ;" and for this definition he gives his reasons at large, to which we refer the reader. See Law. MUNIMENT-HOUSE,... | |
 | 1835 - 804 páginas
...certainly the true philosophical arrangement of the subject. When we are told that " municipal law is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in the •tale," it is obvious to ask, " what is that supreme power, and whence comes its supremacy?"... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1836 - 694 páginas
...the laws would be of no effect, but might always be eluded with impunity. But farther: municipal law is " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state." For legislature, as was before observed, is the greatest act of superiority that can be exercised by... | |
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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. 
