 | Jacob Gilbert Forman - Slavery - 1851 - 52 pages
...nature being co-eval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is superior in obligation to any other: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to...authority, mediately or immediately, from this original." Specifying a particular act forbidden by God's law, he says : " If any human law should allow or enjoin... | |
 | Horace Mann - Slavery - 1851 - 592 pages
...to any other. It is binding all over the globe ; in all countries, at all times. No human laws have any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them...authority. mediately or immediately, from this original." — 1 Com. 41. Fortescue, the Chancellor of Henry VI., in his De Laudibus Legum Anglics, cap. 42, has... | |
 | Horace Mann - Slavery - 1851 - 588 pages
...globe ; in all countries, at all times. No human laws have any validity, if contrary to this : 288 and such of them as are valid, derive all their force...authority, mediately or immediately, from this original." — 1 Com. 41. Fortescue, the Chancellor of Henry VI., in his De Laudibus Legum Anglice, cap. 42, has... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Economics - 1851 - 492 pages
...a right so to withdraw. § a" No human laws are of any validity if contrary to the law of nature ; and such of them as are valid derive all their force...authority mediately or immediately from this original." Thus writes Blackstone, to whom let all honour be given for having so far outseen the ideas of his... | |
 | None - History - 1851 - 514 pages
...Commentaries on English Law — "The law of nature, being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is, of course, superior in obligation to...binding over all the globe, in all countries, and all times. No human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid, derive... | |
 | Lewis W. Paine - Fugitive slaves - 1851 - 206 pages
...directed by God himself, is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding all over the globe, in all countries, and at all times. No...human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this." Lord Chief Justice Hobart also holds, that " even an act of parliament made against natural justice,... | |
 | Horace Mann - Slavery - 1851 - 588 pages
...Maxims, pp. 6, 7. " The law of Nature," says Blackstone, " being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding all over the globe ; in all countries, at all times. No human laws have any validity, if contrary to... | |
 | Lewis W. Paine - Fugitive slaves - 1851 - 208 pages
...Maker is called natural law, and this law of nature being coeval with mankind, and directed by God himself, is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding all over the globe, in all countries, and at all times. No human laws are of any validity, if contrary... | |
 | Horace Mann - Slavery - 1851 - 626 pages
...Maxims, pp. 6, 7. " The law of Nature," says Blackstone, " being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding all over the globe ; in all countries, at all times. No human laws have any validity, if contrary to... | |
 | 1852 - 394 pages
...there"ore the law of nature forbids it. This law of nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any...authority, mediately or immediately, from this original. But in order to apply this to the particular exigencies of each individual, it is still necessary to... | |
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Commentaries remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times; no human laws are of any validity... 
