 | Emlin McClain - 1882 - 244 pages
...than any other branch of the law within the general definition of law given by Blackstone: "A rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a...commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong." (i Bl. Com., 44.) But it is true of criminal law as it is of other branches of the law, that its commands... | |
 | Marshall Davis Ewell - 1882 - 60 pages
...to which all the communities are equally subject. Municipal law is properly denned to be "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a...commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong." [44] [This definition will be improved by omitting the words, "commanding what is right," &c.] And,... | |
 | 1882 - 692 pages
...physical force, which indeed enters into its accepted definition as being a "rule of action prescribed bv 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... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1883 - 602 pages
...to a person, he may vindicate by judicial aid. LAWS are rules of conduct prescribed and sanctioned by the supreme power in a State, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong. JURISPRUDENCE is the knowledge of the laws and of the grounds on which they rest ; and of the application... | |
 | Edwin Charles Clark - 1883 - 442 pages
...I need devote but very few final words to Blackstone's definition of municipal law — " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what * Austin 6. 275. 46 Locke on Government, Bk. 2. ch. 13. § 149. 46 Eg in the French Constitution of... | |
 | North Dakota. Supreme Court, Hiram A. Libby, Robert Milligan Carothers, Robert Dimon Hoskins, Edgar Whittlesey Camp, John McDowell Cochrane, Ames Francis Wilbur, Joseph Coghlan, Edwin James Taylor - 1891 - 586 pages
...definition of "law" is in substance in accord with that by Sir William Blackstone, to- wit, "a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in...commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong." 1 Blackstone Comm. 53. And Blackstone, in his introduction to his Commentaries, (book 1, p. 53,) says:... | |
 | 1904 - 428 pages
...best and simplest definition from a purely practical standpoint. Blackstone defines it as a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a...commanding; what is right and prohibiting what is wrong. (Sharswood Edition, p. 14) Perhaps as good a definition as an American can give is, that Civil laws... | |
 | 1904 - 428 pages
...best and simplest definition from a purely practical standpoint. Blackstone defines it as a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a...commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong. (Sharswood Edition, p. 14) Perhaps as good a definition as an American can give is, that Civil laws... | |
 | Colorado Bar Association - 1914 - 370 pages
...concrete subject of municipal or civil law, he added that it 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." Whether, in its origin, the law, as the analytical jurists, like Bentham and Austin, contended, bears... | |
 | Iowa State Bar Association - 1905 - 822 pages
...receive the recognition to which he is entitled. Municipal law is defined by Blackstone to be, "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a...commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong." Such rules include the declarations of the courts of last resort, as well as the acts of legislatures.... | |
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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. 
