 | John Austin - 1832 - 512 sidor
...conduct of sovereigns considered as related to one another. And hence it inevitably follows, that the law obtaining between nations is not positive law : for every positive law is set, by a given sovereign to a person or persons in a state of subjection to its author. As I have... | |
 | 1832 - 536 sidor
...body is sovereign or supreme. Or (changing the phrase) it is set by a monarch, or sovereign number, to a person or persons in a state of subjection to its author. " To elucidate the nature of sovereignty, and of the independent political society that sovereignty... | |
 | 1832 - 496 sidor
...body is sovereign or supreme. Or (changing the expression) it is set by a monarch or sovereign number to a person or persons in a state of subjection to its author." The term positive, that is, existing by position, he has adopted, as serving more commodiously... | |
 | Henry Wheaton - 1836 - 410 sidor
...opinions current in the fashionable world, and enforced by appropriate sanctions. Such also are the laws which regulate the conduct of independent political...person or persons in a state of subjection to its author. The rule regarding the conduct of sovereign states, considered as related to each other, is... | |
 | Henry Wheaton - 1836 - 420 sidor
...opinions current in the fashionable world, and enforced by appropriate sanctions. Such also are the laws which regulate the conduct of independent political...prescribed by a given superior or sovereign to a person or |>ersons in a state of subjection to its author. The rule regarding the conduct of sovereign states,... | |
 | Henry Wheaton - 1836 - 660 sidor
...current in the fashionable world, " and enforced by appropriate sanctions. " Such also are the laws which regulate the " conduct of independent political...is not " positive law ; for every positive law is pre" scribed by a given superior or sovereign to " a person or persons in a state of subjection " to... | |
 | 1861 - 430 sidor
...is sovereign or supreme. Or, changing the expression, it is set by a monarch, or sovereign number, to a person or persons in a state of subjection to its author. Even though it sprang directly from another fountain or source, it is a positive law, or a... | |
 | 1862 - 422 sidor
...logical data, might have shown him to be inappropriate. Mr. Austin considers "that the law of nations obtaining between nations is not positive law, for every positive law is eet by a given sovereign to a person or persons in a state of subjection to its author." * He further... | |
 | 1889 - 876 sidor
...person or body is sovereign or supreme. In other words, it is set by a monarch or sovereign number to a person or persons in a state of subjection to its author." " It follows that the power of a monarch, properly so called, or the power of a sovereign... | |
 | Travers Twiss - 1861 - 414 sidor
...Nathat they are not prescribed by any superior Power. Thus Mr. Austin says,41 "that the Law of Nations obtaining between Nations is not Positive Law, for every Positive Law is set by a given Sovereign to a person or persons in a state of subjection to its author." He observes... | |
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... set by a sovereign person, or a sovereign body of persons, to a member or members of the independent political society wherein that person or body is sovereign or supreme. Or (changing the expression) it is set by a monarch, or sovereign number, to... 
