 | Henry Lee Scott - 1861 - 674 pages
...each other, according to reason and natural justice. (See WAR.) Municipal or civil law is the rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong. The parts of a law are : 1. The declaratory ; which defines what is right and wrong. 2. The directory... | |
 | 1861 - 922 pages
...significance, to the law of God. ' Law,' he [Judge Blackstone] says, ' is a rule of civil conduct presented by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong.'" " It is a rule of conduct presented, announced, notified "(pp. 143, 144). If our sin be involuntary,... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1863 - 878 pages
...out-life of a First-will. So, again, the definition which Blackstone gives of municipal law, "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a...commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong," is at fault for the same reason, that it leaves out of view the universal test of right and wrong,... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1865 - 642 pages
...particular districts, communities, or nations are governed; and which is usually defined to be "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the " supreme power in a state, commanding what is right, and prohibit" ing what is wrong." It is a rule: not a transient, sudden order from a superior, to or concerning... | |
 | Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper - 1865 - 1094 pages
...algemeen erkend. Zoo definieert BLACK3TONE de .i.... i, w H als: "a rule of civil conduct pres"cribed bij the supreme power in a state commanding what is right "and prohibiting whal is wrong." HELLO : Droit constitutionel , zegt, p. 254 : "Le propre de la loi est de garantir... | |
 | John George Marshall - 1866 - 192 pages
...municipal law, in its widest signification, he says : — " It 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." And in discoursing on the essentials of good government, the perfection of which he justly states,... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1867 - 926 pages
...definition laid down of a municipal law ; and have shewn that it is " a rule of civil conduct proscribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right, and prohibiting wha? tf wrong;" in the explication of which 1 have endeavoured to interweave t lew useful principles... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1869 - 694 pages
...particnlar districts, communities, or nations are governed ; and which is usually defined to be "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the " supreme power in...commanding what is right, and prohibit"ing what is wrong." It is a rule : not a transient, sudden order from a superior, to or concerning a particular person... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - 1870 - 674 pages
...This is the definition of municipal or civil law. Blackstone's definition, in full, is, " a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in...commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong." The last clause has been made the subject of considerable criticism, and is omitted by Mr. Serjeant... | |
 | 1881 - 572 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
