 | John Austin - Jurisprudence - 1832 - 512 pages
...positive law (or the difference that severs it from a law which is not a positive law) may be stated thus. Every positive law, or every law simply and strictly so called, is set by a sove198 reign person, or a sovereign body of persons, to a member or members of the independent... | |
 | Law - 1832 - 536 pages
...severs it from a law which is not a positive law) may be stated generally in the following manner : — Every positive law, or every law simply and strictly so called, is set by a sovereign person, or a sovereign body of persons, to a member or members of the independent political... | |
 | Great Britain - 1832 - 496 pages
...of jurisprudence ; and to this our author gives the name of positive law. He thus defines it : — " Every positive law, or every law simply and strictly so called, is set by a sovereign person, or a sovereign body of persons, to a member or members of the independent political... | |
 | Education - 1832 - 410 pages
...who obtained the imperial dignity by that means. As every positive law is set by a sovereign person or body to a member or members of the independent political society in which that person or body is sovereign, in other words, is set by a sovereign to its subjects ;... | |
 | Law - 1861 - 430 pages
...law, or the difference that severs it from a law which is not a positive law, may be stated thus : Every positive law, or every law simply and strictly so called, is set by a sovereign person, or a sovereign body of persons, to a member or members of the independent political... | |
 | American essays - 1889 - 876 pages
...society are subject, or on that determinate superior the other members of the society are dependent." " Every positive law, or every law simply and strictly so called, is set by a sovereign person or by a sovereign body of persons to a member or members of the independent political... | |
 | John Austin - Jurisprudence - 1861 - 468 pages
...or every law simply and strictly so called, is set, directly or circuitously, by a sovereign person or body, to a member or members of the independent political society wherein that person or body is sovereign or supreme. Or (changing the expression) it is set, directly or circuitously,... | |
 | John Austin, Sarah Austin - Law - 1869 - 628 pages
...severs it from a law which is not a positive law) may be stated generally in the following manner. Every positive law, or every law simply and strictly so called, is set by a sovereign person, or a sovereign body of persons, to a member or members of the independent political... | |
 | David Nasmith - Constitutional history - 1873 - 552 pages
...Those annexed to positive laws, legal. And those annexed to moral rules, moral.1 Positive Law. — ' Every positive law, or every law simply and strictly...independent political society wherein its author is supreme.'2 In other words, some positive laws are set by the sovereign immediately ; whilst others... | |
 | Gordon Campbell - Jurisprudence - 1877 - 294 pages
...definition of a positive law as ono ' which is set directly or circuitously by a monarch or sovereign body to a member or members of the independent political society, wherein that person or body is sovereign or supreme ' — that the power of a monarch or of a sovereign nmnber... | |
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Every positive law, or every law simply and strictly so called, is set by a sovereign person, or a sovereign body of persons, to a member or members of the independent political society wherein that person or body is sovereign or supreme. 
