 | Albert Barnes - 1860 - 376 Seiten
...general signification of law, a rule of action dictated by some superior being." "Municipal law is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong."* The following are the usual definitions of law : — "Lex est ratio summa, quae jubet quaa sunt utilia... | |
 | 1860 - 712 Seiten
...and their punishment, are severally embraced in this branch of the common law, which is defined as " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong." The words of Demosthenes may also be added: "It is proclaimed as a general ordinance, equal and impartial... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - 1860 - 382 Seiten
...among men' may be transferred with much higher significance to the law of God. " Law," he says, " is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong." It is a rule — as "something permanent, uniform, and universal." Not advice, " which we are at liberty... | |
 | Peter Hardeman Burnett - 1860 - 812 Seiten
...Commentator on the laws of England defines municipal law to be, " A rule of civil conduct, prescribedby the supreme power in a State, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong." When the learned Commentator says, " Commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong," he means,... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1860 - 874 Seiten
...of the former branch of our definition, is (I trust) sufficiently evident; that "municipal, law is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state." I proceed now to the latter branch of it; that it is a rule so prescribed, "commanding what is right,... | |
 | Henry Lee Scott - 1861 - 674 Seiten
...with each other, according to reason and natural justice. (See WAR.) Municipal or civil law is the rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong. The parts of a law are : 1. The declaratory ; which defines what is right and wrong. 2. The directory... | |
 | 1861 - 922 Seiten
...significance, to the law of God. ' Law,' he [Judge Blackstone] says, ' is a rule of civil conduct presented by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong.'" " It is a rule of conduct presented, announced, notified "(pp. 143, 144). If our sin be involuntary,... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1861 - 904 Seiten
...municipiitm, or free town, yet, in common languuge, it is applied to the laws of a state or nation. It is defined to be "a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a state." The sovereign power is the poner of making law?, which is sometimes vested in an aggregate assembly,... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1863 - 878 Seiten
...fruit and out-life of a First-will. So, again, the definition which Blackstone gives of municipal law, "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong," is at fault for the same reason, that it leaves out of view the universal test of right and wrong,... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1863 - 812 Seiten
...laws would be of no effect, but might always be eluded with impunity. But farther: municipal law is " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state." For legislature is the greatest act of superiority that can be exercised by one being over another.... | |
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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. 
