 | Albert Barnes - 1860 - 376 trang
...This, then, is the general signification of law, a rule of action dictated by some superior being." "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."* The following are the usual definitions... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - 1860 - 382 trang
...established among men' may be transferred with much higher significance to the law of God. " Law," he says, " is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a State, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong." It is a rule — as "something permanent,... | |
 | 1860 - 880 trang
...State to step in, and suppress such brutal and demoralizing contests. — ECLECTIC. If " Law" be " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a State, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong," it is evidently necessary that its force... | |
 | 1860 - 712 trang
...and their 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:... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1861 - 904 trang
...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,... | |
 | Henry Lee Scott - 1861 - 674 trang
...with each other, according to reason and natural justice. (See WAR.) Municipal or civil law is the rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a State, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong. The parts of a law are : 1. The declaratory... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1863 - 812 trang
...recur for a moment to the views taken of this subject in a preceding part of the work. We have seen that municipal law is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state (a); whose authority to prescribe it has been referred to the contract implied in civil society, that... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1863 - 878 trang
...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 power in a state commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong," is at fault for the same reason, that it leaves... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1864 - 822 trang
...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 Thomas Brande - 1866 - 992 trang
...injunctions ; municipal, from the Latin municipium, 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. 
