 | Johann L. Tellkampf, Johann Ludwig Tellkampf - Banks and banking - 1859 - 348 pages
...tit. 2, § 4. 2 Kent, in his Commentaries, vol. I. part 3, lect. 20, page 447, defines municipal law, as 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. whilst the English are so familiarised... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1860 - 712 pages
...crimes and their punishment, are severally embraced in this branch of the common law, which is defined as " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong." The words of Demosthenes may also be added: "It is proclaimed as a general ordinance, equal and impartial... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - Future punishment - 1860 - 382 pages
...among men' may be transferred with much higher significance to the law of God. " Law," he says, " is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong." It is a rule — as "something permanent, uniform, and universal." Not advice, " which we are at liberty... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Atonement - 1860 - 376 pages
...general signification of law, a rule of action dictated by some superior being." "Municipal law is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong."* The following are the usual definitions of law : — "Lex est ratio summa, quae jubet quaa sunt utilia... | |
 | Great Britain - 1860 - 880 pages
...State to step in, and suppress such brutal and demoralizing contests. — ECLECTIC. If " Law" be " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong," it is evidently necessary that its force should be extended to pugilism, which constitutes a breach... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 780 pages
...PARTIES. • AT the opening of these commentaries,(a) municipal law was in general defined to be, " a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong."(2>) From hence therefore it followed, that the primary objects of the law are the establishment... | |
 | Peter Hardeman Burnett - Catholic converts - 1860 - 812 pages
...Commentator on the laws of England defines municipal law to be, " A rule of civil conduct, prescribedby the supreme power in a State, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong." When the learned Commentator says, " Commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong," he means,... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 874 pages
...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,... | |
 | Henry Lee Scott - History - 1861 - 674 pages
...with each other, according to reason and natural justice. (See WAR.) Municipal or civil law is the rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong. The parts of a law are : 1. The declaratory ; which defines what is right and wrong. 2. The directory... | |
 | 1861 - 922 pages
...significance, to the law of God. ' Law,' he [Judge Blackstone] says, ' is a rule of civil conduct presented by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong.'" " It is a rule of conduct presented, announced, notified "(pp. 143, 144). If our sin be involuntary,... | |
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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. 
