| United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1857 - 840 páginas
...defined to be a rule of civil conduct, preFEBRUARY-, 1311.] Sank of the United States. [SENATE. scribed by the supreme power in a State, 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... | |
| Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1857 - 630 páginas
...they have not succeeded in bringing jnto existence " an act." Law is a rule of action: municipal law is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in the state. (1 Bl. Com. 44.) The laws consist of the unwritten laws, common laws, and of the written,... | |
| John Codman Hurd - 1858 - 778 páginas
...or the judgment of his conscience.1 § 15. Municipal law, according to Blackstone's definition, if " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong." The latter clause of this definition has been criticised as superfluous, if that be right which the... | |
| Amasa Junius Parker - 1858 - 734 páginas
...they have not succeeded in bringing into existence " an act." Law is a rule of action ; municipal law is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in the state. (1 Bl. Com., 44.) The laws consist of the unwritten laws (common law) and of the written... | |
| John Codman Hurd - 1858 - 678 páginas
...the judgment of his conscience. 1 § 15. Municipal law, according to Blackstone's definition, it " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in A Btate, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong." The latter clause of this definition... | |
| Johann L. Tellkampf, Johann Ludwig Tellkampf - 1859 - 348 páginas
...2, § 4. 2 Kent, in his Commentaries, vol. I. part 3, lect. 20, page 447, defines municipal law, as 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. whilst the English are so familiarised... | |
| George Leapingwell - 1859 - 386 páginas
...its more confined sense denotes the Municipal rules of human action and conduct. Municipal Uw- law is a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in the state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong. All law is natural or instituted.... | |
| Joseph Parrish Thompson - 1860 - 382 páginas
...established among men' may be transferred with much higher significance to the law of God. " Law," he says, " is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...what is right and prohibiting what is wrong." It is a rule — as "something permanent, uniform, and universal." Not advice, " which we are at liberty... | |
| 1860 - 880 páginas
...State to step in, and suppress such brutal and demoralizing contests. — ECLECTIC. If " Law" be " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong," it is evidently necessary that its force should be extended to pugilism, which constitutes a breach of virtue... | |
| Albert Barnes - 1860 - 376 páginas
...the general signification of law, a rule of action dictated by some superior being." "Municipal law is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong."* The following are the usual definitions of law : — "Lex est ratio summa, quae jubet quaa sunt utilia... | |
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