 | Nathaniel Chipman - 1833 - 396 sider
...Municipal law is the civil law of a particular country. It has been defined by Judge Blackstone to be " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in the state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong."* This definition, was, I believe, first introduced... | |
 | 1833 - 578 sider
...Blaekstone's definition of municipal law, betrays a similar confusion of ideas. According to him, Law is ' a rule of civil ' conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a State, command' ing what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong.' Were this the fact, there could... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1833 - 590 sider
...Blackstone's definition of municipal law, betrays a similar confusion of ideas. According to him, Law is ' a rule of civil ' conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a State, com man d' ing what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong.' Were this the fact, there could... | |
 | 1835 - 804 sider
...certainly the true philosophical arrangement of the subject. When we are told that " municipal law is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in the •tale," it is obvious to ask, " what is that supreme power, and whence comes its supremacy?" When... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1836 - 694 sider
...the laws would be of no effect, but might always be eluded with impunity. But farther: municipal law is " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state." For legislature, as was before observed, is the greatest act of superiority that can be exercised... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE - 1837 - 468 sider
...the laws would be of no effect, but might always be eluded with impunity. But further: municipal law is "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state." For legislature, as was before observed, is the greatest act of superiority that can be exercised... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1838 - 910 sider
...laws would be of no effect, but might always be eluded with impunity (6). But farther : municipal law is " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state." For legislature, as was before observed, is the greatest act of superiority that can be exercised... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1838 - 334 sider
...paragraph containing the explanation above mentioned. It is as follows: — "But farther: Municipal Law is a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a state." " For Legislature, as was before observed, is the greatest act of superiority that can be... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1841 - 626 sider
...meaning and force of the term (taken in this its ordinary sense) may be more fully developed thus, it is " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state." £Let us endeavour to explain its several properties, as they arise out of this definition.... | |
 | George Bowyer - 1841 - 742 sider
...definition of municipal law, or the law by which each country is separately governed, is, that " it is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state." The law of England, understood in this general sense, as the rule to which all persons within... | |
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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. 
