 | Sir William BLACKSTONE - 1837 - 468 páginas
...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 WGHT AND PROHIBITING WHAT IS WRONG." Let US endeavour to explain its several properties, as they arise... | |
 | William Blackstone, James Stewart - 1839 - 556 páginas
...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 " Puffendorf, 1. 7, c. 1, compared • Ff. 1, 1, 9. with Barbeyrac's commentary. ° Inst 1, 2, 1. "... | |
 | William Blackstone, John Bethune Bayly - 1840 - 764 páginas
...for its own government," 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." How the several forms of government we now see in the world at first actually began is matter of great... | |
 | James Brown - 1840 - 120 páginas
...their political capacity, have ever committed. Blackjtone defines municipal jaw to be ''a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state,...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wron"." VVi;h the exception of these two sins, this definition has, under all the abuses of despotic... | |
 | 1860 - 722 páginas
...punishment, are severally embraced in this branch of the common law, •which is defined as "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state,...commanding what is right and prohibiting •what is wrong." The words of Demosthenes may also be added : "It is proclaimed as a general ordinance, equal and impartial... | |
 | Gilbert Abbott À Beckett - 1844 - 110 páginas
...chapter, though we have not yet said a word regarding it. Municipal law is 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." Such was the definition of Puffendorf, whose name is probably a corruption of Puffing off, for he puffs... | |
 | 1844 - 888 páginas
...If the reader asks why we do not cite Blackstone's definition,—-" Municipal law is a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the Supreme power in a State,...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong," (/ Comm. pf 445) — We reply : because we think the last clause equivocal and superfluous, and, if... | |
 | Daniel Chipman - 1846 - 422 páginas
...particular and more scientific definition of municipal law. He tells us that it is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state,...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong. Let us now, with the author of the Commentaries, endeavor, as concisely as possible, without losing... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly. Senate - 1848 - 1012 páginas
...first proposition, how is it borne out by facts ? Municipal law is defined to be " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is to be done or what omitted." It is a rule prescribed, written out beforehand, not a mere sudden order... | |
 | John Craig (F.G.S.) - 1849 - 1148 páginas
...ñbi populas comtituit.' Municipal lav, thus understood, ¡s 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 municipal loa of England, or the role of civil conduct prescribed to the inhabitants of this kingdom,... | |
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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. 
