 | 1877 - 1004 páginas
...and wrong which reason prescribes to all mankind ; 3 positive, civil or municipal, as a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a state,...commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong ; 4 international, as a rule of right and wrong acknowledged among nations for the regulation of their... | |
 | James Paterson - 1877 - 538 páginas
...same laws and customs. And 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."1 Paley does not expressly define what he means by municipal law, except in so far as he assumes... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1877 - 640 páginas
...communities are governed ; and which is usually defined to be " a rule of civil conduct pre" scribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is " right, and prohibiting what is wrong." It is a rule : not a transient, sudden order from a superior, to or concerning a particular person... | |
 | Edwin Troxell Freedley - 1878 - 384 páginas
...to natural justice. 14. What is the origin of MUNICIPAL LAWS? Municipal law is defined by Bluckstonc to be " a rule of conduct prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong." It differs from moral law in the fact that it derives its force and binding obligation from the consent... | |
 | Edward Henslowe Bedford - 1879 - 308 páginas
...principally now embodied in mutual compacts. What is the municipal or civil law ? " A rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a State...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong." A ' ' ' It is a rule permanent, uniform, and universal. It is not advice or counsel, nor a compact... | |
 | Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Conn - 1879 - 148 páginas
...correct as laid down by Blackstone, viz : " Municipal Law 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 ;" or by Chitty, who says, "A Municipal Law is completely expressed by the first branch of the (above)... | |
 | John Hutton Balfour Browne - 1880 - 722 páginas
...have described we arrive in time at a stage where there is a necessity for law, or "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a State,...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong."1 g 182. Property and Theft.— We might, if time permitted, trace the metaphysical relation... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1881 - 740 páginas
...his part to the subsistence and peace of society." Again he says : " 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." He shows that the exercise of this supreme power is not limited by the approbation of the individual... | |
 | 1881 - 674 páginas
...his part to the subsistence and peace of society." Again he says : " Municipal law is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is icrong." He shows that the exercise of this supreme power is not limited by the approbation of the... | |
 | Bernard Janin Sage - 1881 - 656 páginas
...the people united under one government, whatever may be the form of government. ' Municipal law is- a rule of conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state.' — Blackstone. More usually, the word signifies a politiIn the edition of 1864 is to he found the... | |
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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. 
