 | Sir William Blackstone - 1807 - 686 lehte
...governed by the same laws and customs. 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 (5)." Let us endeavour to explain its several... | |
 | 1807 - 324 lehte
...also an offence " against conscience." And in another placef having defined a municipal law to be—" A rule of civil conduct " prescribed by the. supreme power in a state commanding " what is right, andprohibithig what is rbrong," Mr. Sedgwick contends;}: that ' One or... | |
 | James Beattie, Thomas Gray - 1809 - 414 lehte
...give an account of the laws of any particular country, we might begin with this definition.— Law is a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong.* But, taking the word law in a more general... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 734 lehte
...ingredients, diiobedience and punUhment. Municipal law, it by Uie tame great comraentatordefined to be " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state ; commanding what is right, and prohibiting what a wrong." The latter clause of this sentence seems... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1814 - 618 lehte
...compacts, treaties, leagues, and agreements, between these several communities. Municipal law is " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the Supreme Power in a State, commanding zvhat is right, and prohibiting what is wrong. The municipal law of England, or the rule... | |
 | James Beattie - 1817 - 450 lehte
...give an account of the laws of any particular country, we might begin with this definition.—Law is a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong *. But, taking the word law in a more general... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1823 - 250 lehte
...containing the explanation above mentioned. Xt is as follows :—" But farther : " municipal Law is a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme " power in a state." " For Legislature, as was before observed, is " the greatest act of superiority that can be exercised... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1823 - 216 lehte
...containing the explanation above mentioned, it is as follows : — " But farther : " municipal Law is a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme " power in a state." " For Legislature, as was before observed, is " the greatest act of superiority that can be exercised... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - 1823 - 872 lehte
...governed by the same laws and customs. 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." The political writers of antiquity will... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 568 lehte
...THE PARTIES. AT the opening of these commentaries • municipal law was in general 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 b ." From hence therefore it followed, that... | |
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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, it is a rule : not a transient 
