 | Edgar Benton Kinkead - 1905 - 496 Seiten
...limited sense, was furnished by Blackstone. "Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense," he says "signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately...whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational." In its confined sense, it denotes the rules of human action and conduct. "Municipal law" he defines... | |
 | M. E. Dunlap (Counsellor at law) - 1905 - 620 Seiten
...it signifies a rule of action dictated by some superior, and which the inferior is bound to obey. It is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action,...whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational; as, for example, we speak of the laws of motion, of gravitation, «t optics, or mechanics, as well... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1906 - 724 Seiten
...of the legislature, rendered authentic by certain prescribed forms and solemnities. (Id.) The word law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action (1 Bl. Com., 38); a rule of action prescribed by some supreme being. (Id.) 207 Woodruff v. Trapnall.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1911 - 1482 Seiten
...of the Legislature, rendered authentic by certain prescribed forms and solemnities. Ibid. The word "law," in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action (1 Bl. Com. 38) ; a rule of action prescribed by some supreme being. Ibid. Municipal law is a rule... | |
 | Sir John William Salmond - 1913 - 582 Seiten
...Hooker,1 " we term any kind of rule or canon whereby actions are framed a law." So Blackstone says : 2 " Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense,...Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of opties or mechanies, as well as the laws of nature and of nations." Of law in this sense there are... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1915 - 1632 Seiten
...and constitution of their country. i 50 OF THE NATURE OF LAWS IN GENERAL. § 36. Meaning of law. — Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense,...Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of opties, or mechanies, as well as the laws of nature and of nations. And it is that rule of action,... | |
 | William Fenton Myers - 1918 - 560 Seiten
...too narrow. Blackstone, the early English writer, in his "Commentaries," says, in defining the term: "Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action." Attempting to enlarge and make clear this definition, he then proceeds to further define it to be "a... | |
 | Roland Roberts Foulke - 1920 - 586 Seiten
...the necessary relations arising from the nature of things," Montesquie, "Spirit of Laws," Book I, 1. "Law in its most general and comprehensive sense,...whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational," Blackstone, Comm., Introduction, Sec. II. " But laws, in their more confined sense . . . denote the... | |
 | Bar Association of Arkansas - 1920 - 666 Seiten
...authorities. Yet, even in the light of these definitions, have we any law upon the subject? 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... | |
 | 1889 - 510 Seiten
...his chapter on " The Nature of Laws in General " Blackstone opens with the broad definition that " Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense,...of action, whether animate or inanimate, rational, orirrational." Inhis chapter on "The laws of England" he defines the municipal law of England (to be)... | |
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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. 
