 | New York (N.Y.) - 1854 - 980 pages
...under consideration belongs to that class called "Municipal Law," and which Blackstoiie defines to be "A rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right and prohibí ling what is wrong," — and it is a rule prescribed by the legislature, because a bare resolution,... | |
 | John Bouvier - Law - 1854 - 674 pages
...too limited in its signification, to convey a just idea of the subject. Mr. Chitty defines it to be " a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what shall be done and what shall not be done."(6) But this does not appear to distinguish between a law... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - Liberty - 1856 - 138 pages
...or the judgment of his conscience.1 § 15. Municipal law, according to Blackstone's definition, is " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong." The latter clause of this definition has been criticised as superfluous, if that be right which the... | |
 | Law - 1856 - 206 pages
...as quite conclusive by those who remember that Sir William Blackstone, after defining municipal law as " a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a state," goes on to declare, that "it is incumbent on the promulgators," that is, the supreme power, to notify... | |
 | International law - 1855 - 486 pages
...been evil laws in all ages, yet they have not the less been laws. Internal Positive Law is therefore a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a State. 1 De Legibus, lib. 1 . cap. iii. 9. It is defined a rule, in order to distinguish it from anything... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 774 pages
...study of the law, the science of the law. Municipal law is defined by tire great English commentator, as " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong." Our American Kent describes it " as a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power of a state."*... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 770 pages
...study of the law, the science of the law. Municipal law is defined by the great English commentator, as "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what ia wrong." Our American Kent describes it " as a rule of civil c'onduct prescribed by the supreme power... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1857 - 840 pages
...defined to be a rule of civil conduct, preFEBRUARY-, 1311.] Sank of the United States. [SENATE. scribed by the supreme power in a State, 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... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - Law - 1858 - 778 pages
...or the judgment of his conscience.1 § 15. Municipal law, according to Blackstone's definition, if " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong." The latter clause of this definition has been criticised as superfluous, if that be right which the... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - Law - 1858 - 678 pages
...the judgment of his conscience. 1 § 15. Municipal law, according to Blackstone's definition, it " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in A Btate, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong." The latter clause of this definition... | |
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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. 
