 | James Beattie, Thomas Gray - 1809 - 408 pages
...to give an account of the laws of any particular country, we might begin with this definition. — Law is a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong.* But, taking the word law in a... | |
 | James Beattie, Thomas Gray - 1809 - 414 pages
...were to give an account of the laws of any particular country, we might begin with this definition.— Law is a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong.* But, taking the word law in a... | |
 | Sarah Renou - 1817 - 250 pages
...Ferguson. requisite on account of its rectitude and the high authority from which it is adduced. Municipal law is ' a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state. It regards man as a citizen, and bound to other duties towards his neighbour, than those... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1823 - 216 pages
...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." J' For Legislature, as was before observed, is " the greatest act of superiority that... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1833 - 748 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... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1825 - 572 pages
...laws would be of no effect, but might always be eluded with impunity. (4) I 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... | |
 | James Kent - 1832 - 590 pages
...THE VARIOUS SOURCES OF THE MUNICIPAL LAW OF THE SEVERAL STATES. LECTURE XX. OF STATUTE LAW. MUNICIPAL law is a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a state. It is composed of written and unwritten, or statute and common law. Statute law is the... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1833 - 748 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 u right, and forbidding what is wrong." The supreme is the legislative power; and this must be supreme... | |
 | 1833 - 578 pages
...have. 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 - 596 pages
...have. 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... | |
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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. 
