 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1861 - 904 sidor
...or free town, yet, in common languuge, it is applied to the laws of a state or nation. It is defined to be "a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a state." The sovereign power is the poner of making law?, which is sometimes vested in an aggregate assembly,... | |
 | 1861 - 922 sidor
...significance, to the law of God. ' Law,' he [Judge Blackstone] says, ' is a rule of civil conduct presented by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong.'" " It is a rule of conduct presented, announced, notified "(pp. 143, 144). If our sin... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1863 - 878 sidor
...fruit and out-life of a First-will. So, again, the definition which Blackstone gives of municipal law, "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...in a state commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong," is at fault for the same reason, that it leaves out of view the universal test of right... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1863 - 812 sidor
...laws would be of no effect, but might always be eluded with impunity. But farther: municipal law is " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state." For legislature is the greatest act of superiority that can be exercised by one being over another.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1864 - 822 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1866 - 780 sidor
...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 by the...a state commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong."(¿>) From hence therefore it followed, that the primary objects of the law are the... | |
 | John George Marshall - 1866 - 192 sidor
...these." In treating of municipal law, in its widest signification, he says : — " It is properly defined to be a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the Supreme...a state commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong." And in discoursing on the essentials of good government, the perfection of which he... | |
 | William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - 1866 - 972 sidor
...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... | |
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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. 
