 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 770 pages
...law, the science of the law. Municipal law is defined by the great English commentator, as "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a...state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what ia wrong." Our American Kent describes it " as a rule of civil c'onduct prescribed by the supreme power... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1857 - 840 pages
...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... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - 1858 - 694 pages
...judgment of his conscience.1 § 15. Municipal law, according to Blackstone's definition, i? " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in A...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... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - 1860 - 382 pages
...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 power in a...commanding 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 pages
...step in, and suppress such brutal and demoralizing contests. — ECLECTIC. If " Law" be " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong," it is evidently necessary that its force should be extended to pugilism, which constitutes a breach... | |
 | 1860 - 712 pages
...punishment, are severally embraced in this branch of the common law, which is defined as " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a...commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong." The words of Demosthenes may also be added: "It is proclaimed as a general ordinance, equal and impartial... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1860 - 376 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1860 - 780 pages
...• AT the opening of these commentaries,(a) 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."(2>) From hence therefore it followed, that the primary objects of the law are the establishment... | |
 | Peter Hardeman Burnett - 1860 - 812 pages
...Commentator on the laws of England defines municipal law to be, " A rule of civil conduct, prescribedby the supreme power in a State, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong." When the learned Commentator says, " Commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong," he means,... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1860 - 874 pages
...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 confiscate the goods of Titius... | |
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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. 
