 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1861 - 904 Seiten
...(Lat. lex; from Ugo, I gather or collect), in its moat general and comprehensive signification, denotes a rule of action, and is applied indiscriminately...animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we speak of the laws of motion or of gravitation, as well as that of nature and of nations. It is, farther,'... | |
 | Frederick Bridges - 1862 - 340 Seiten
...are in strict accordance with the laws which govern the fitness of things. "Law," says Blackstone, "in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies...whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. When the Supreme Being formed the universe, and created matter out of nothing, He impressed upon that... | |
 | Alexander Robertson (of Dun Donnochy.) - 1864 - 122 Seiten
...measured, whether they punish the guilty or protect the innocent." According to Sir William Blackstone, " Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action. It is a science which distinguishes the criterions of right and wrong ; which teaches us to establish... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - 1868 - 488 Seiten
...the only forms of words by which the like definitions might be expressed. Thus Blackstone says : " Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense,...say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, of mechanics, as well as the laws of nature and of nations. And it is that rule of action which is... | |
 | The North American Review.VOL.CXII. - 1871 - 506 Seiten
...singularly devoid of Saxon words. His definition of law itself is Latin almost from beginning to end: "Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense,...whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational." This peculiarity accounts in great measure for the pompous effect which the style has to the ear of... | |
 | 1871 - 494 Seiten
...words. His definition of law itself is Latin almost from beginning to end: "Law, in its most'general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action,...whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational." This peculiarity accounts in great measure for the pompous effect which the style has to the ear of... | |
 | California - 1872 - 698 Seiten
...law, that " in its most general and comprehensive sense it signifies a rule of action ; and this term is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action,...whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. 1 Black. Com., p. 38: In its more confined sense law denotes the rule, not of actions in general but... | |
 | William Blackstone, David Mitchell Aird - 1873 - 386 Seiten
...conduct as Englishmen, What is Law ; and explain the Foundations upon which all Human Laws depend. LAW, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action prescribed by a superior to an inferior being, and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action,... | |
 | 1874 - 1178 Seiten
...that by right commandeth all things, then are they properly called laws."t 3. Blackstone says : — " Law in its most general and comprehensive sense signifies...whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. "J Again municipal law, which is Blackstone's equivalent for the jus civile of the Romans, is " a rule... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - 1875 - 966 Seiten
...Mr. JW Smith. (o) 2 Rep. pref. (n) Ante, pp. 2—9. »SECTION IL [*30] THE NATURE OF LAWS IN GENERAL. LAW, in its most general and comprehensive sense,...indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate or inansuniflcation of imate> rational or irrational(a). Thus we say, the laws of motion, -Law." Of gravitation,... | |
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Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action ; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. 
