 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 532 pages
...the learned Mr Justice Blackstone says, in his Commentaries, vol. ip 34, ' is properly defined to be, a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong.' It must be apparent, therefore, to the smallest mind, that the essential requisites of good laws are... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 538 pages
...the learned Mr Justice Blackstone says, in his Commentaries, vol. ip 34, ' is properly denned to be, a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong.' It must be apparent, therefore, to the smallest mind, that the essential requisites of good laws are... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - Political science - 1832 - 312 pages
...argument by which Blackstone proves the latter part of his definition of municipal law, that it is " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong"* proceeds entirely on this uncertainty of meaning. " In order to do this completely (he says), it is... | |
 | Matthew St. Clair Clarke - Banking law - 1832 - 864 pages
...be given by implication. Blackstone says, " municipal law. thus understood, is properly defined tobe a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong.*' Agreeably to this definition, every law passed by a deliberative body is an act of sovereignty as to... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1832 - 590 pages
...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 express written... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1833 - 590 pages
...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 be no... | |
 | 1833 - 578 pages
...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 be no bad... | |
 | Thomas Edlyne Tomlins - Law - 1835 - 862 pages
...protection. Cowell. MUNDICK. See Metal. MUNICIPAL LAW. Is defined by Blackstone, (1 Comm. Introd.) " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state ;" and for this definition he gives his reasons at large, to which we refer the reader. See Law. MUNIMENT-HOUSE,... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1836 - 694 pages
...truth of the former branch of our definition is (I trust) sufficiently evident; that " municipal law is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state," I proceed now to the latter branch of it; that it is a rule so prescribed, " commanding what is right,... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE - 1837 - 468 pages
...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 by... | |
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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. 
