 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1864 - 822 Seiten
...denned 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... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1865 - 642 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,... | |
 | Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper - 1865 - 1094 Seiten
...algemeen erkend. Zoo definieert BLACK3TONE de .i.... i, w H als: "a rule of civil conduct pres"cribed bij the supreme power in a state commanding what is right "and prohibiting whal is wrong." HELLO : Droit constitutionel , zegt, p. 254 : "Le propre de la loi est de garantir... | |
 | John George Marshall - 1866 - 192 Seiten
...suffered to contradict these." In treating of municipal law, in its widest signification, he says : — " It is properly defined to be a rule of civil conduct,...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong." And in discoursing on the essentials of good government, the perfection of which he justly states,... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1866 - 780 Seiten
...THE MERE ACT OF THE PARTIES. AT the opening of these commentaries,(a) municipal law was in general defined to be, " a rule of civil conduct, prescribed...what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong."(¿>) From hence therefore it followed, that the primary objects of the law are the establishment of rights,... | |
 | William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - 1866 - 972 Seiten
...municipat-, from the Latin munici-piiim, a town possessed of privileges and local laws. Positive law is ' a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state.' Blackstone adds, 'commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong.' But as it is clear that... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - 1866 - 968 Seiten
...municipal, from the Latin municipium, л town possessed of privileges and local laws. Positive law is ' a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state.' Blacketone adds, 'commanding what is right, should he order a general mourning for a stated and prohibiting... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1867 - 810 Seiten
...THE MERE ACT OF THE PARTIES. SAT the opening of these Commentaries (a) municipal law was in jeneral defined to be, " a rule of civil conduct, prescribed...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong (¿>)." From hence therefore it followed, that the primary objects ol the law are the establishment... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1867 - 926 Seiten
...former branch of our definition, is (I trust) sufficiently evident ; that " municipal laip is •• 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 wha' it right,... | |
 | George Washington Paschal - 1868 - 452 Seiten
...solemn expression of legislative will. Louisiana Civil Code, Art. I. It is a rule of action. It is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the "supreme" power in a State. 1 Bl. Com. 44; 1 Kent's Com., Lect. XX. p. 447. It includes supremacy. Story's Const § П38. Seo Federalist,... | |
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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. 
