...against transgressors. I have now gone through the definition of a municipal law : and have shown that it is a " rule — of civil conduct— prescribed —...power in a state — commanding what is right, and pro " hibiting what is wrong." I proceed now to consider the origin and nature of the laws of England....

...f 10, net. " Centralization and the Law." One conception underlies Blackstone's definition : " Law is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a State, commanding what is right and forbidding what is wrong." This definition assumes that law is something fixed and determined ; that...

...Idea of physical force, which indeed enters into its accepted definition as being a " rule of action prescribed by the supreme power in a State commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong," or as the Duke of Argyle has condensed it, " the authoritative expression of human will enforced by...

...idea of physical force, which indeed enters into its accepted definition as being a " rule of action prescribed by the supreme power in a State commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong," or as the Duke of Argyle has condensed it, " the authoritative expression of human will enforced by...

...or sanction, and according to which it will regulate, limit, or protect the conduct of its members. A rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state. 1 Stephen, Comm. 25. A rule or enactment promulgated by the legislative authority of a state; a long'-establishcd...

...38, 39. A rule of human action or conduct Id. ibid. A system of such rules.* In a stricter sense, — a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a state. 1 Steph. Com. 25. 1 Bl. Com. 44. This is the definition of municipal or civil law. Blackstone's definition,...

...speaking of the concrete subject of municipal or civil law, he added that it is properly defined to be : ''A rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong." Whether, in its origin, the law, as the analytical jurists, like Bentham and Austin, contended, bears...

...Publicists, past Cicero, to Chrysippus, and defined municipal law, the law of a single state or nation, as "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong." That rule of conduct, insofar as it deals not with mere mala prohibita but mala in se, derives from...

...should receive the recognition to which he is entitled. Municipal law is defined by Blackstone to be, "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong." Such rules include the declarations of the courts of last resort, as well as the acts of legislatures....

...revolutionary in turn.51 Blackstone's ambivalence was neatly summed up in his oft-quoted definition of "Law": A rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong.52 How much of law is "power?" How much right and wrong? That ambivalence was certainly shared...