 | United States. Congress - 1833 - 746 sider
...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... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1833 - 748 sider
...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 u right, and forbidding what is wrong." The supreme is the legislative power; and this must be supreme... | |
 | Andrew White Young - 1835 - 316 sider
...defined by Blackstone, is a rule by which particular districts, communities or nations are governed; a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong. [Municipal, derived from a Latin word, had reference to the particular customs of one single municipium... | |
 | Andrew White Young - 1836 - 334 sider
...defined by Blackstone, is a rule by which particular districts, communities or nations are governed; a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong. Municipal, derived from a Latin word, had reference to the particular customs of one single municipium... | |
 | Francis Patrick Kenrick - 1840 - 414 sider
...leges imitari maluerunt. Quanto melius singulorum juribus semper studuit Ecclesia! (2) " Municipal law is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power of a state." Biackatone. tota agnoscit Ecclesia: " Doctrina ну nodi asserens ad supremam civilem potestatem dumtaxat... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1843 - 914 sider
...proceed to give separate definitions of the word law, as it is variously applied. Municipal or civil law, is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power of a state, commanding what its subjects are to do, and prohibiting what they are to forbear. The law of nature, otherwise called... | |
 | 1844 - 888 sider
...the general sense of the people have defined it to be, in the words he quotes from Noah Webster, " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the Supreme power of a State, commanding what its subjects are to do, and prohibiting what they are to forbear." Or, as Heineccius describes it :... | |
 | Lysander Spooner - 1845 - 168 sider
...of these definitions—one that probably embraces the essence of all the rest—is this: That " law is a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power of a state, commanding what its subjects are to do, and prohibiting what they are to forbear." Noah Webster. In this definition,... | |
 | Lysander Spooner - 1845 - 168 sider
...hardly any thing, that is essential to the idea of law, is made certain. Let us see. It says that, " Law is a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power of a state." What is " the supreme power," that, is here spoken of, as the fountain of law ? Is it the supreme physical... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly. Senate - 1848 - 1012 sider
...interests. In other words, it is a power to dispense with the law at pleasure. Law is defined to be a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power of a State. It is prescribed, enacted before hand, not a mere sudden order or edict, made to suit a particular... | |
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Blackstone's declaration that law is "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power of a state commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong. 
