 | Henry John Stephen - 1841 - 626 páginas
...the views taken of this subject in a preceding part of the work. We have seen that the municipal law is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in the state (a), whose authority to prescribe it has been referred to the contract implied in civil society,... | |
 | 1844 - 888 páginas
...are the commands of the Supreme power in a State." Or as Chancellor Kent defines it : " Municipal law is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the Supreme power in a State." Or with Nathan Dane, the author of the ordinance of 1787 : u Municipal or civil law is the rule of... | |
 | William Alexander Duer - 1843 - 442 páginas
...cannot either of them be proved by showing what are the qualities of a law. Law has been defined to be " a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a state." In our system, the Legislature of a state is the supreme power in all cases in which its action is... | |
 | 1845 - 436 páginas
...cannot either of them be proved by showing what are the qualities of a law. Law has been defined to be " a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a state." In our system, the Legislature of a state is the supreme power in all cases in which its action is... | |
 | Daniel Chipman - 1846 - 422 páginas
...Blackstone has given a more particular and more scientific definition of municipal law. He tells us that it is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong. Let us now, with the author of the Commentaries, endeavor, as concisely as possible, without losing... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly. Senate - 1848 - 1012 páginas
...barbarism. As to the first proposition, how is it borne out by facts ? Municipal law is defined to be " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is to be done or what omitted." It is a rule prescribed, written out beforehand, not a mere sudden order... | |
 | John Craig (F.G.S.) - 1849 - 1148 páginas
...at quod yuaque ñbi populas comtituit.' Municipal lav, thus understood, ¡s properly defined to be a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong. The municipal loa of England, or the role of civil conduct prescribed to the inhabitants of this kingdom,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1851 - 680 páginas
...of action (1 Bl. Com. 38) ; a rule of action prescribed by some supreme being. (Ibid.) Municipal law is a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a, state (1 Bl. Com. 46), commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong. (Ibid. 53.) The operation... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - 1851 - 570 páginas
...44. The particular law of a state or nation ; as distinguished from public or international law.* — A rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a state. 1 Bl. Com. ub. sup. 1 Kent's Com. 447. In a stricter sense, — the local law of a particular place,... | |
 | Edward Rogers - 1851 - 188 páginas
...What is the municipal law ? It is the law that every state prescribes for itself. Thus understood, it is a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in the state, commanding what is right and forbidding what is wrong. It is a rule. Why ? Because it is... | |
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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. 
