 | 1877 - 1004 pages
...right and wrong which reason prescribes to all mankind ; 3 positive, civil or municipal, as a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in...commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong ; 4 international, as a rule of right and wrong acknowledged among nations for the regulation of their... | |
 | James Paterson - 1877 - 538 pages
...the same laws and customs. And municipal law, thus understood, is properly defined to be a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in...state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong."1 Paley does not expressly define what he means by municipal law, except in so far as he assumes... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1877 - 640 pages
...communities are governed ; and which is usually defined to be " a rule of civil conduct pre" scribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is " right, and prohibiting what is wrong." It is a rule : not a transient, sudden order from a superior, to or concerning a particular person... | |
 | Edwin Troxell Freedley - 1878 - 384 pages
...14. What is the origin of MUNICIPAL LAWS? Municipal law is defined by Bluckstonc to be " a rule of conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a State,...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong." It differs from moral law in the fact that it derives its force and binding obligation from the consent... | |
 | Edward Henslowe Bedford - 1879 - 308 pages
...justice, principally now embodied in mutual compacts. What is the municipal or civil law ? " A rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong." A ' ' ' It is a rule permanent, uniform, and universal. It is not advice or counsel, nor a compact or... | |
 | Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Conn - 1879 - 148 pages
...to be correct as laid down by Blackstone, viz : " Municipal Law 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 ;" or by Chitty, who says, "A Municipal Law is completely expressed by the first branch of the (above)... | |
 | John Hutton Balfour Browne - 1880 - 722 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 g 182. Property and Theft.— We might, if time permitted, trace the metaphysical relation... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1881 - 740 pages
...contribute his part to the subsistence and peace of society." Again he says : " Municipal law is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a...commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong." He shows that the exercise of this supreme power is not limited by the approbation of the individual... | |
 | 1881 - 674 pages
...contribute his part to the subsistence and peace of society." Again he says : " Municipal law is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a...state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is icrong." He shows that the exercise of this supreme power is not limited by the approbation of the... | |
 | Timothy Walker - 1882 - 850 pages
...object, therefore, this lecture will be devoted. According to Blackstonc, " municipal law is a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in...commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong." This definition is imperfect, because it does not clearly distinguish between moral right and wrong,... | |
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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. 
