 A law, in the most general and comprehensive acceptation in which the term, in its literal meaning, is employed, may be said to be a rule laid down for the guidance of an intelligent being by an intelligent being having power over him.  Municipal and Local Government Law (England) - Page 1by Herbert Emerson Smith - 1923 - 247 lehteFull view - About this book
 | John Austin, Sarah Austin - 1869 - 628 lehte
...acceptation oump're- i n which the term, in its literal meaning, is employed, may henrfve be said to be a rule laid down for the guidance of an intelligent...being by an intelligent being having power over him. Under this definition are included, and without impropriety, several species. It is necessary to define... | |
 | J. M. Denniston - 1872 - 480 lehte
...and comprehensive acceptation in which the term in its literal meaning is employed, may be said to be a rule laid down for the guidance of an intelligent...being by an intelligent being having power over him. "Every law or rule (taken with the largest signification which can be given to the term properly} is... | |
 | Manthano (pseud.) - 1872 - 396 lehte
...of invariable sequences. In the proper sense of the word law is, as Austin has defined it ; "a law laid down for the guidance of an intelligent being, by an intelligent being having power over him." Power can only be predicated of a conscious personal agent. Hence our first idea of law is probably... | |
 | Christian evidence society, Samuel Wilberforce - 1872 - 502 lehte
...in another form. We are created under law, not only under a law of unvariable sequences, but " a law laid down for the guidance of an intelligent being, by an intelligent being having power over him."* Such is Austin's definition of all law, in the proper sense of the word. That law implies sanctions,... | |
 | David Nasmith - 1873 - 552 lehte
...comprehensive acceptation in which the term, in its literal meaning, is employed, may be said to be a rule laid down for the guidance of an intelligent being, by an intelligent being having power over him.'2 In other words, a law is a command which obliges a person or persons. Laws set by men to men... | |
 | 1874 - 1178 lehte
...general and comprehensive sense in which the term, in its literal meaning, is employed, may be said to be a rule laid down for the guidance of an intelligent being, by an intelligent being having power over him."t " Every law or rule (taken with the largest signification which can be given to the term properly)... | |
 | 1875 - 774 lehte
...'philosophy,' what 'science,' what ' law ' and what ' positive law ?'J First, a law (sensu latiore) is a rule laid down for the guidance of an intelligent...being by an intelligent being having[; power over him. And every positive law is such a rule set by a monarch or sovereign body to a person or persons in... | |
 | 1879 - 366 lehte
...comprehensive acceptation in which the term, in its literal meaning, is employed, may be said to be a rule laid down for the guidance of an intelligent...being by an intelligent being having power over him." .... " Every law or rule (taken with the largest signification which can be given to the term properly)... | |
 | Christian evidence society - 1879 - 498 lehte
...in another form. We are created under law, not only under a law of unvariable sequences, but " a law laid down for the guidance of an intelligent being, by an intelligent being having power over him."* Such is Austin's definition of all law, in the proper sense of the word. That law implies sanctions,... | |
 | John Austin - 1880 - 552 lehte
...determine the province of jurisprudence. A law, in the literal and proper sense of the word, may be defined as a rule laid down for the guidance of an intelligent...metaphor or analogy, and in this sense law comprises Laws set by God to men, and Laws set by men to men. Laws set 1>y God to men. — To the whole or a... | |
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