 | Amasa Junius Parker - 1858 - Страниц: 734
...it, 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... | |
 | George Leapingwell - 1859 - Страниц: 384
...Law in 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.... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1860 - Страниц: 376
...is 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 power in a state, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong."* The following are the usual... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1860 - Страниц: 874
...definition of the text W'-re modified so as to conform to this idea, it would be better: — "Municipal law is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is to be done, and forbidding the contrary." — SHARSWOOD. 'The act to... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1863 - Страниц: 812
...moment to the views taken of this subject in a preceding part of the work. We have seen that municipal law is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state (a); whose authority to prescribe it has been referred to the contract implied in civil... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1865 - Страниц: 642
...the truth of the former branch of our definition is (I trust) sufficiently evident; that " municipal law " is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state." I proceed now to the latter branch of it; that it is a rule so prescribed, " commanding... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - 1866 - Страниц: 342
...different nations, or the like; as for illustration, if the 'definition had been constructed thus; "Law is a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power of a State commanding what is right and prohibiting what is 'wrong and is made in the nature of things obligatory on all the subjects... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - 1866 - Страниц: 992
...injunctions ; municipal, from the Latin municipium, a town possessed of privileges and local laws. Positive law is ' a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state." Blackstone adds, ' commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong." But as it... | |
 | William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - 1866 - Страниц: 972
...; municipat-, from the Latin munici-piiim, a town possessed of privileges and local laws. Positive law is ' a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state.' Blackstone adds, 'commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong.' But as it... | |
 | Joseph Alden - 1867 - Страниц: 156
...Christendom for the regulation of their intercourse in peace and war. 5. What is municipal law ? Municipal law is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in the state. Municipal law is compos.ed of written and unwritten law ; that is, statute and common... | |
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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. 
