| Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - 1823 - 872 pages
...by the same laws and customs. Municipal law, thus understood, is properly defined to be, " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by " the supreme power, in...commanding what " is right and prohibiting what is wrong." The political writers of antiquity will not allow more than three regular forms of government : the... | |
| George Crabb - 1823 - 704 pages
...its limited sense, as respects the conduct of men in civil society, it is defined to be " A rule of conduct prescribed by the Supreme power in a state...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong, which is otherwise called municipal law. The Law of England is usually divided into the Common Law,... | |
| sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 568 pages
...PARTIES. AT the opening of these commentaries • municipal law was in general defined to be, " a rule of civil conduct, prescribed " by the supreme power in...commanding what is " right, and prohibiting what is wrong b." From hence therefore it followed, that the primary objects of the law are the establishment of... | |
| Sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 660 pages
...power b Puffendorff, I. 7. c. 1. compared with Barbeyrec's commentary, 'jy.1.1.9. * Iiut. 1. 2. 1. " in a state, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what " is wrong." Let us endeavour to explain its several properties, as they arise out of this definition. AND, first,... | |
| William Blackstone - 1825 - 572 pages
...*** b Puffendorff, /. 7. c. I. compared with Barbeyrac's commentary. c FJ. 1. 1- 9* Jnst. 1. 2. 1. " in a state, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what *' is wrong." Let us endeavour to explain its several properties, as they arise out of this definition. AND, first,... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 532 pages
...Mr Justice Blackstone says, in his Commentaries, vol. ip 34, ' is properly defined to be, a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong.' It must be apparent, therefore, to the smallest mind, that the essential requisites of good laws are... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 538 pages
...Mr Justice Blackstone says, in his Commentaries, vol. ip 34, ' is properly denned to be, a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong.' It must be apparent, therefore, to the smallest mind, that the essential requisites of good laws are... | |
| William Blackstone - 1827 - 916 pages
...same laws and customs. Municipal law, thus understood, is properly defined to be "a rule of •• civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a...commanding " what is right and prohibiting what is wrong." • Let us endeavour to explain its several properties, as they arise out of this definition. cFf.... | |
| Matthew St. Clair Clarke - 1832 - 864 pages
...implication. Blackstone says, " municipal law. thus understood, is properly defined tobe a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a...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... | |
| Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1832 - 312 pages
...which Blackstone proves the latter part of his definition of municipal law, that it is " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong"* proceeds entirely on this uncertainty of meaning. " In order to do this completely (he says), it is... | |
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