 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.  The Legalized Outlaw - Page 224by Samuel R. Artman - 1908 - 295 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 686 pages
...which is governed by the same laws and customs. MUNICIPAL law, thus understood, is properly denned to be " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power " in a state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what " is wrong (5)." Let us endeavour to explain... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 734 pages
...essential ingredients, diiobedience and punUhment. Municipal law, it by Uie tame great comraentator defined to be " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state ; commanding what is right, and prohibiting what a wrong." The latter clause of this sentence... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 406 pages
...essential ingredients, disobedience and punishment. Municipal law is, by the same great commentator, 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 latter clause of this sentence... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 408 pages
...essential ingredients, disobedience and punishment. Municipal law is, by the same great commentator, 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 latter clause of this sentence... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...nation, which is governed by 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 right and prohibiting what is wrong." The political writers of antiquity... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1833 - 746 pages
...a rule? It is a law. We all remember when, in our incipient studies, we were taught that a law was "a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power of a State, commanding what is right, and forbidding what is wrong." The supreme is the legislative power; and this must be supreme over the... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 568 pages
...THE1 MERE ACT OF THE PARTIES. AT the opening of these commentaries • municipal law was in general 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 b." From hence therefore it followed,... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1825 - 572 pages
...nation which is governed by the same laws and customs. fi MUNICIPAL law, thus understood, is properly defined to be '' a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme pbwer *** b Puffendorff, /. 7. c. I. compared with Barbeyrac's commentary. c FJ. 1. 1- 9* Jnst. 1.... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 532 pages
...societies,' the learned Mr Justice Blackstone says, in his Commentaries, vol. ip 34, ' 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.' It must be apparent, therefore,... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1827 - 916 pages
...nation! which is governed by 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 right and prohibiting what is wrong." • Let us endeavour to explain... | |
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