 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1867 - 926 pages
...former branch of our definition, is (I trust) sufficiently evident ; that " municipal laip is •• 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 wha' it right,... | |
 | George Washington Paschal - Constitutional law - 1868 - 448 pages
...Solemn expression of legislative will. Louisiana Civil Code, Art. I. It is a rule of action. It is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the " supreme" power in a State. 1 BL Com. 44 ; 1 Kent's Com., Lect. XX. p. 447. It includes supremacy. Story's Const § 1738. Bee Federalist,... | |
 | George Washington Paschal - Constitutional law - 1868 - 452 pages
...solemn expression of legislative will. Louisiana Civil Code, Art. I. It is a rule of action. It is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the "supreme" power in a State. 1 Bl. Com. 44; 1 Kent's Com., Lect. XX. p. 447. It includes supremacy. Story's Const § П38. Seo Federalist,... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1869 - 694 pages
...which particnlar districts, communities, or nations are governed ; and which is usually defined to be "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the " supreme...commanding what is right, and prohibit"ing what is wrong." It is a rule : not a transient, sudden order from a superior, to or concerning a particular person... | |
 | 1906 - 1232 pages
...10, net. " Centralization and the Law." One conception underlies Blackstone's definition : " Law is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a State, commanding what is right and forbidding what is wrong." This definition assumes that law is something fixed and determined ; that... | |
 | Law - 1881 - 572 pages
...idea of physical force, which indeed enters into its accepted definition as being a " rule of action prescribed by the supreme power in a State commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong," or as the Duke of Argyle has condensed it, " the authoritative expression of human will enforced by... | |
 | Law - 1881 - 572 pages
...Idea of physical force, which indeed enters into its accepted definition as being a " rule of action prescribed by the supreme power in a State commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong," or as the Duke of Argyle has condensed it, " the authoritative expression of human will enforced by... | |
 | John Bouvier - Law - 1870 - 900 pages
..."commanding what shall be done or what shall not be done" (irf. nntr); and Mr. Stephen omits it, denning law as "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state." 1 Stephen. (.Vmrn. 25. It is also defined as a rule of conduct contained in the command of a sovereign... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - Dictionaries, Law - 1870 - 674 pages
...38, 39. A rule of human action or conduct Id. ibid. A system of such rules.* In a stricter sense, — a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a state. 1 Steph. Com. 25. 1 Bl. Com. 44. This is the definition of municipal or civil law. Blackstone's definition,... | |
 | 1871 - 588 pages
...beginning which we have described we arrive in time at a stage where there is a necessity for law, or " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong." 1 After property has been acquired, after the municipal law has forbidden theft and prescribed penalties... | |
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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. 
