 | James Beattie, Thomas Gray - English literature - 1809 - 414 pages
...were to give an account of the laws of any particular country, we might begin with this definition.— Law is a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong.* But, taking the word law in a more general... | |
 | James Beattie, Thomas Gray - English literature - 1809 - 408 pages
...to give an account of the laws of any particular country, we might begin with this definition. — Law is a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong.* But, taking the word law in a more general'... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 734 pages
...ingredients, diiobedience and punUhment. Municipal law, it by Uie tame great comraentator defined to be " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state ; commanding what is right, and prohibiting what a wrong." The latter clause of this sentence seems... | |
 | Sarah Renou - 1817 - 250 pages
...• Ferguson. requisite on account of its rectitude and the high authority from which it is adduced. Municipal law is ' a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state. It regards man as a citizen, and bound to other duties towards his neighbour, than those of mere nature... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 408 pages
...ingredients, disobedience and punishment. Municipal law is, by the same great commentator, 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." The latter clause of this sentence seems... | |
 | Octavius Pickering, William Howard Gardiner - Trials (Impeachment) - 1821 - 240 pages
...or mipelial rescript. What, sir, do we understand as being the import of the term law, but that И is " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a stale, establishing and ascertaining what is right and what is wrong"? It is a rule, not the mere private... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 406 pages
...ingredients, disobedience and punishment. Municipal law is, by the same great commentator, 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." The latter clause of this sentence seems... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - Law - 1823 - 216 pages
...be proper to give the paragraph containing the explanation above mentioned. It is as follows : — " But farther : " municipal Law is a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme " power in a state." J' For Legislature, as was before observed, is " the greatest act of superiority that can be exercised... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...governed by the same laws and customs. 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." The political writers of antiquity will... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 660 pages
...authority I HAVE now gone through the definition laid down of a municipal law : and have shewn that it is " a rule — of civil " conduct — prescribed — by the supreme power in a state — rity which human laws can have, is that the power of the lawgiver is derived from God ; and that... | |
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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. 
