 | John Craig (F.G.S.) - 1849 - 1148 Seiten
...Justinian — ' Jiu civile at quod yuaque ñbi populas comtituit.' Municipal lav, thus understood, ¡s properly defined to be a rule of civil conduct prescribed...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong. The municipal loa of England, or the role of civil conduct prescribed to the inhabitants of this kingdom,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1851 - 680 Seiten
...action (1 Bl. Com. 38) ; a rule of action prescribed by some supreme being. (Ibid.) Municipal law is a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a, state (1 Bl. Com. 46), commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong. (Ibid. 53.) The operation... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - 1851 - 570 Seiten
...44. The particular law of a state or nation ; as distinguished from public or international law.* — A rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a state. 1 Bl. Com. ub. sup. 1 Kent's Com. 447. In a stricter sense, — the local law of a particular place,... | |
 | William Blackstone, Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot - 1853 - 392 Seiten
...AND OF COTJBTS OF JUSTICE IN GENERAL. AT the commencement of these Letters, I defined Municipal Law to be, " a Rule of Civil Conduct, prescribed by the...commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong." The primary objects of Law, therefore, are the establishment of Rights and the prohibition of Wrongs... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1853 - 720 Seiten
...cannot be given by implication. Blackstone says, " municipal law, thus understood, is properly de' fined to be a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the '...State, commanding what is • right and prohibiting whatiswrong." Agreeably to this definition, every law passed by a deliberative body is an act of sovereignty... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1853 - 726 Seiten
..."municipal law, thus understood, is properly de' fined to be a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the 1 supreme power in a State, commanding what is ' right and prohibiting what is wrong." Agreeably to this definition, every law passed by a deliberative body is an act of sovereignty as to... | |
 | 1854 - 980 Seiten
...subject under consideration belongs to that class called "Municipal Law," and which Blackstoiie defines to be "A rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right and prohibí ling what is wrong," — and it is a rule prescribed by the legislature, because a bare resolution,... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1854 - 674 Seiten
...indefinite, and too limited in its signification, to convey a just idea of the subject. Mr. Chitty defines it to be " a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what shall be done and what shall not be done."(6) But this does not appear to distinguish between a law... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - 1856 - 138 Seiten
...or the judgment of his conscience.1 § 15. Municipal law, according to Blackstone's definition, is " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong." The latter clause of this definition has been criticised as superfluous, if that be right which the... | |
 | 1855 - 486 Seiten
...been evil laws in all ages, yet they have not the less been laws. Internal Positive Law is therefore a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a State. 1 De Legibus, lib. 1 . cap. iii. 9. It is defined a rule, in order to distinguish it from anything... | |
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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. 
