 | Trinidad. [Appendix.] - Constitutional history - 1807 - 228 pages
...be expected, that the people will be satisfied or obedient in a country where there is ho " rule of conduct prescribed by the supreme power in the state,...commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong."* Such a rule of action ought to be fixed and certain, known and notorious; and ought not to be left... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 686 pages
...which is governed by the same laws and customs. MUNICIPAL law, thus understood, is properly denned to be " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power " in a state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what " is wrong (5)." Let us endeavour to explain... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 734 pages
...essential ingredients, diiobedience and punUhment. Municipal law, it by Uie tame great comraentator defined to be " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state ; commanding what is right, and prohibiting what a wrong." The latter clause of this sentence... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 408 pages
...ingredients, disobedience and punishment. Municipal law is, by the same great commentator, 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." The latter clause of this sentence... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 406 pages
...ingredients, disobedience and punishment. Municipal law is, by the same great commentator, 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." The latter clause of this sentence... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...which is governed by the same laws and customs. 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." The political writers of antiquity... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 568 pages
...MERE ACT OF THE PARTIES. AT the opening of these commentaries • municipal law was in general 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 b." From hence therefore it followed,... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 660 pages
...which is governed by the same laws and customs. MUNICIPAL law, thus understood, is properly defined to be " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power b Puffendorff, I. 7. c. 1. compared with Barbeyrec's commentary, 'jy.1.1.9. * Iiut. 1. 2. 1. " in a... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1827 - 916 pages
...which is governed by the same laws and customs. 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." • Let us endeavour to explain... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 538 pages
...societies,' 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 power in a state, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong.' It must be apparent, therefore,... | |
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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. 
