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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. "
Defining and Limiting the Jurisdiction of Courts Sitting in Equity: Hearing ... - Page 10
by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1930 - 36 pages
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Albany Law Journal, Volume 24

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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New Outlook, Volume 83

1906 - 1232 pages
...Centralization and the Law." One conception underlies Blackstone's definition : " Law is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a State, commanding what is right and forbidding what is wrong." This definition assumes that law is something fixed and determined ; that...
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The Medical jurisprudence of insanity

John Hutton Balfour Browne - 1871 - 372 pages
...which we have described we arrive in time at a stage where there is a necessity for law, or " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong."* ." It is unnecessary to go further into the question as to the formation of the idea of property, or...
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British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Volume 47

1871 - 588 pages
...which we have described we arrive in time at a stage where there is a necessity for law, or " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong." 1 After property has been acquired, after the municipal law has forbidden theft and prescribed penalties...
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British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review: Or, Quarterly ..., Volume 47

1871 - 578 pages
...which we have described we arrive in time at a stage where there is a necessity for law, or " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong."1 It is unnecessary to go further into the question as to the formation of the idea of property,...
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Journal of Proceedings of the ... Annual Session of ..., Volume 18, Part 1872

Independent Order of Good Templars. Grand Lodge of North America - 1872 - 104 pages
...PROHIBITION AND POLITICAL ACTION. Accepting an accredited, brief definition of civil law, as " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong ;" and having determined the whole trade in intoxicating beverages to be an unmitigated wrong, we demand...
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Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Volume 1

William Blackstone - 1872 - 776 pages
...the same laws and customs. l 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."(U) Let us endeavour to explain its several properties, as they arise out of this definition....
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The Southern Law Review: And Chart of the Southern Law and ..., Volume 2

1873 - 826 pages
...William Blackstone begins his far-famed commentaries by telling the student that law is "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a...commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong." As has been suggested by one of the most eminent men of this country, this definition is inapplicable...
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A Practical Treatise on the Law of Municipal Bonds, Volume 1

William Nichols Coler - 1873 - 482 pages
...municipal law given by the English and American writers. Sir WILLIAM BLACKSTONE says, it is "A rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a...commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong." . ¥ THE LAW OF MUNICIPAL BONDS. 23 The modern definition strikes out the latter clause, and leaves...
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The Principles of Jurisprudence

Denis Caulfield Heron - 1873 - 128 pages
...town. Blackstone defines Municipal Law — or, as it should be termed, Positive Law — as a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a...commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong. Now, the error of this definition is, that a law prescribed by the supreme power in a State is still...
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