 | United States. Supreme Court - 1851 - 680 sidor
...action (1 Bl. Com. 38) ; a rule of action prescribed by some supreme being. (Ibid.) Municipal law is a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a, state (1 Bl. Com. 46), commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong. (Ibid. 53.) The operation... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1853 - 726 sidor
...however, is. that this is one of those independent. original, and substantive powers, which cannot begiven by implication. Blackstone says, "municipal law, thus...fined to be a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the 1 supreme power in a State, commanding what is ' right and prohibiting what is wrong." Agreeably to... | |
 | William Blackstone, Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot - 1853 - 392 sidor
...AND OF COTJBTS OF JUSTICE IN GENERAL. AT the commencement of these Letters, I defined Municipal Law to be, " a Rule of Civil Conduct, prescribed by the...a state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong." The primary objects of Law, therefore, are the establishment of Rights and the prohibition... | |
 | 1854 - 980 sidor
...subject under consideration belongs to that class called "Municipal Law," and which Blackstoiie defines to be "A rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right and prohibí ling what is wrong," — and it is a rule prescribed by the legislature, because a bare resolution,... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1854 - 674 sidor
...indefinite, and too limited in its signification, to convey a just idea of the subject. Mr. Chitty defines it to be " a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what shall be done and what shall not be done."(6) But this does not appear to distinguish between a law... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - 1856 - 138 sidor
...or the judgment of his conscience.1 § 15. Municipal law, according to Blackstone's definition, is " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...a State, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong." The latter clause of this definition has been criticised as superfluous, if that be... | |
 | 1855 - 486 sidor
...been evil laws in all ages, yet they have not the less been laws. Internal Positive Law is therefore a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a State. 1 De Legibus, lib. 1 . cap. iii. 9. It is defined a rule, in order to distinguish it from anything... | |
 | 1856 - 206 sidor
...quite conclusive by those who remember that Sir William Blackstone, after defining municipal law as " a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a state," goes on to declare, that "it is incumbent on the promulgators," that is, the supreme power, to notify... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 770 sidor
...study of the law, the science of the law. Municipal law is defined by the great English commentator, as "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...a state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what ia wrong." Our American Kent describes it " as a rule of civil c'onduct prescribed by the supreme... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1857 - 840 sidor
...defined to be a rule of civil conduct, preFEBRUARY-, 1311.] Sank of the United States. [SENATE. scribed by the supreme power in a State, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong." Agreeably to this definition, every law passed by a deliberative body is an act of... | |
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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. 
