| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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