 | 1889 - 512 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)... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association, Maryland State Bar Association. Meeting - 1914 - 300 Seiten
...observation which is very familiar to us all — it has been some years since I have seen it — the law in its most general and comprehensive sense signifies a rule of action and applies indiscriminately to all kinds of action, rational and irrational, animate and inanimate ; and... | |
 | Rose-Mary Sargent - 1995 - 374 Seiten
...became blurred, however. Blackstone, for example, stated that a "law signifies a rule of action and it is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action...whether animate, or inanimate, rational or irrational." See William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, vol 1 (1765, reprint, Chicago: University... | |
 | Hans Kelsen - 1999 - 542 Seiten
...The law created by a legis* BLACKSTONE, COMMENTAMES ON THE LAWS OF ENGLAND, Introduction, §§ 3639: "Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and Every system of values, especially a system of morals and its central idea of justice, is a social... | |
 | William Blackstone - 2002 - 500 Seiten
...moft general and comprehenfive fenfe, fignifies I ^ a rule of action ; and is applied indifcriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate, or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we fay, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of opties, or mechanies, as well as the laws of nature and... | |
 | Richard A. Epstein - 2003 - 324 Seiten
...see Richard A. Epstein, "The Static Conception of the Common Law," 9 J. Legal Stud. 253 (1980). 16. "Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense,...whether animate, or inanimate, rational or irrational" (i William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England *39-*4o). 17. Elie Halévy, The Growth of... | |
 | Richard Burn - 2004 - 904 Seiten
...LAUNDE, a lawn, or open field without wood. LAW, in its moft general and comprehenfive fenfe, fignifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of a£Hon, whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we fay, the laws of motion, of gravitation,... | |
 | VD Mahajan - 2006 - 936 Seiten
...society with regard to the distribution and exercise of power over persons and things". Blackstone says: "Law in its most general and comprehensive sense signifies...rational or irrational. Thus, we say, the laws of gravitation, of optics or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature and of nations," Montesquieu says:... | |
 | Peter Orebech, Fred Bosselman, Jes Bjarup, David Callies, Martin Chanock, Hanne Petersen - 2005 - 440 Seiten
...This is also the position endorsed by Sir William Blackstone as manifested in his definition of law. Law in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and it is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational.... | |
 | 1871 - 498 Seiten
...singularly devoid of Saxon words. His definition of law itself is Latiu 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... | |
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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. 
