 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.  The Science of International Law - Стр. 92авторы: Thomas Alfred Walker - 1893 - Страниц: 544Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Sir William Blackstone - 1807 - Страниц: 686
...Holland. But 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— a positive law is discovered by experience to be useful and necessary onlv to men in certain districts,... | |
 | James Beattie, Thomas Gray - 1809 - Страниц: 408
...give an account of the laws of any particular country, we might begin with this definition. — Law is a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong.* But, taking the word law in a more general' sense, and consi* Bliickstone.... | |
 | James Beattie, Thomas Gray - 1809 - Страниц: 414
...give an account of the laws of any particular country, we might begin with this definition.— Law is a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong.* But, taking the word law in a more general sense, and consi.".». Blarkstone.... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - Страниц: 734
...ingredients, diiobedience and punUhment. Municipal law, it by Uie tame great comraentator defined to be " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state ; commanding what is right, and prohibiting what a wrong." The latter clause of this sentence seems to Mr. Christian to be either... | |
 | 1812 - Страниц: 500
...in other words, " Law is the perfection of reason." An English judge defines law to be " a rule of conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong." A Grecian orator, explains the design and object of law to be, " to... | |
 | Sarah Renou - 1817 - Страниц: 250
...requisite on account of its rectitude and the high authority from which it is adduced. Municipal law is ' a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state. It regards man as a citizen, and bound to other duties towards his neighbour, than those of mere nature... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1821 - Страниц: 408
...ingredients, disobedience and punishment. Municipal law is, by the same great commentator, 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." The latter clause of this sentence seems to Mr. Christian to be either... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1821 - Страниц: 406
...ingredients, disobedience and punishment. Municipal law is, by the same great commentator, 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." The latter clause of this sentence seems to Mr. Christian to be either... | |
 | 1821 - Страниц: 328
...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 in a state, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong. VI. Society is formed for the protection of individuals ; and states,... | |
 | Octavius Pickering, William Howard Gardiner - 1821 - Страниц: 240
...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... | |
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