 | William Blackstone - 1827 - 916 Seiten
...one state or nation! which is governed by the same laws and customs. Municipal law, thus understood, is properly defined to be "a rule of •• civil...commanding " what is right and prohibiting what is wrong." • Let us endeavour to explain its several properties, as they arise out of this definition. cFf.... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 532 Seiten
...to particular societies,' the learned Mr Justice Blackstone says, in his Commentaries, vol. ip 34, ' is properly defined to be, a rule of civil conduct...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong.' It must be apparent, therefore, to the smallest mind, that the essential requisites of good laws are... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 538 Seiten
...societies,' the learned Mr Justice Blackstone says, in his Commentaries, vol. ip 34, ' is properly denned to be, a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong.' It must be apparent, therefore, to the smallest mind, that the essential requisites of good laws are... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1827 - 682 Seiten
...defined by a writer, whose definitions especially have been the theme of almost universal panegyric, " to be a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a State." In our system, the legislature of a State is the supreme power, in all cases where its action is not... | |
 | Matthew St. Clair Clarke - 1832 - 856 Seiten
...cannot be given by implication. Blackstone says, " municipal law, thus understood, is properly denned to be a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...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... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1832 - 312 Seiten
...argument by which Blackstone proves the latter part of his definition of municipal law, that it is " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong"* proceeds entirely on this uncertainty of meaning. " In order to do this completely (he says), it is... | |
 | Matthew St. Clair Clarke - 1832 - 864 Seiten
...be given by implication. Blackstone says, " municipal law. thus understood, is properly defined tobe a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...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... | |
 | James Kent - 1832 - 590 Seiten
...VARIOUS SOURCES OF THE MUNICIPAL LAW OF THE SEVERAL STATES. LECTURE XX. OF STATUTE LAW. MUNICIPAL law is a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a state. It is composed of written and unwritten, or statute and common law. Statute law is the express written... | |
 | Nathaniel Chipman - 1833 - 404 Seiten
...Obligation. Municipal law is the civil law of a particular country. It has been defined by Judge Blackstone to be " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in the state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong."* This definition, was, I believe,... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1833 - 590 Seiten
...Blackstone's definition of municipal law, betrays a similar confusion of ideas. According to him, Law is ' a rule of civil ' conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a State, com man d' ing what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong.' Were this the fact, there could be no... | |
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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. 
