 | James Brown - 1840 - 120 Seiten
...slavery, which nations, in their political capacity, have ever committed. Blackjtone defines municipal jaw to be ''a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wron"." VVi;h the exception of these two sins, this definition has, under all the abuses of despotic... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1840 - 338 Seiten
...no service to the king or to the public, without hopes of ever changing their owners. MUNICIPAL LAW. A rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state. MURDER. See Homicide. MUSLIN. A fine, thin sort of cotton cloth, bearing a downy nap on its surface.... | |
 | 1860 - 722 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... | |
 | George Bowyer - 1841 - 742 Seiten
...definition of municipal law, or the law by which each country is separately governed, is, that " it is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state." The law of England, understood in this general sense, as the rule to which all persons within its jurisdiction... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1841 - 626 Seiten
...and force of the term (taken in this its ordinary sense) may be more fully developed thus, it is " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state." £Let us endeavour to explain its several properties, as they arise out of this definition. And, first,... | |
 | Gilbert Abbott À Beckett - 1844 - 110 Seiten
...the subject of the present chapter, though we have not yet said a word regarding it. Municipal law is defined to be " a rule of civil conduct prescribed...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong." Such was the definition of Puffendorf, whose name is probably a corruption of Puffing off, for he puffs... | |
 | 1844 - 888 Seiten
...the commands of the Supreme power in a State." Or as Chancellor Kent defines it : " Municipal law is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the Supreme power in a State." Or with Nathan Dane, the author of the ordinance of 1787 : u Municipal or civil law is the rule of... | |
 | 1845 - 436 Seiten
...denied, they cannot either of them be proved by showing what are the qualities of a law. Law has been defined 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 in which its action is... | |
 | Daniel Chipman - 1846 - 422 Seiten
...has given a more particular and more scientific definition of municipal law. He tells us that it is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong. Let us now, with the author of the Commentaries, endeavor, as concisely as possible, without losing... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly. Senate - 1848 - 1012 Seiten
...their pecuniary interests. In other words, it is a power to dispense with the law at pleasure. Law is defined to be a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power of a State. It is prescribed, enacted before hand, not a mere sudden order or edict, made to suit a... | |
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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. 
