 the authority of British law, as he found it written down by Blackstone: " The law of nature being coeval with God himself is of course superior to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all time. No human laws are of any...  The Works of William H. Seward - Page 127by William Henry Seward - 1884Full view - About this book
 | William Blackstone - 1825 - 572 pages
...nature being coeval with mankind, and die- ' tated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times : no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Chivalry - 1826 - 330 pages
...short-sighted persons ought kind, and dictated by God himself, is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this ; and such of them as are valid, derive... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Chivalry - 1826 - 334 pages
...short-sighted persons ought ; . . . I kind, and dictated by God himself, is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this ; and such of them as are valid, derive... | |
 | George Coventry - Church of England - 1830 - 232 pages
...with mankind, and dictated ' by God himself, is of course superior in obli' gation to any other.—No human laws are of ' any validity if contrary to this; and such of ' them as are valid, derive all their force and ' all their authority, mediately or immediately ' from this original.' Therefore, as... | |
 | Christianity - Ethics - 1831 - 252 pages
...nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times : no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this ; and such of them as are valid, derive... | |
 | James Peggs - Ethics - 1832 - 542 pages
...superior in obligation to any other. It is binding all over the globe, in all countries, and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid, derive all their force and authority mediately or immediately from this original.' The most strenuous defenders,... | |
 | Nathaniel Chipman - Constitutional law - 1833 - 404 pages
...works.—" It is a law," as it has been forcibly observed, " binding over all the globe, and at all times. No human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid, derive all their force, all their authority from this original." * * 1. Bl. Comm. 41. CHAPTER II. Of the Law of... | |
 | Nathaniel Chipman - Constitutional law - 1833 - 396 pages
...works.—" It is a law," as it has been forcibly observed, " binding over all the globe, and at all times. No human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this ; and such of them as are valid, derive all their force, all their authority from this original." * * 1. Bl. Coram. 41. dnoit CHAPTER II. Of the... | |
 | Aristoteles - 1833 - 450 pages
...nature, being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this ; and such of them as are valid derive... | |
 | James Mill - 1835 - 466 pages
...nature, being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times. No human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this : and such of them as are valid derive... | |
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