 | William Blackstone - 1838 - 910 pages
...would be of no effect, but might always be eluded with impunity (6). But farther : municipal law is " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state." For legislature, as was before observed, is the greatest act of superiority that can be exercised by... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1838 - 334 pages
...paragraph containing the explanation above mentioned. It is as follows: — "But farther: Municipal Law is a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a state." " For Legislature, as was before observed, is the greatest act of superiority that can be exercised... | |
 | William Blackstone, James Stewart - 1839 - 556 pages
...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...a state, commanding what is right and prohibiting " Puffendorf, 1. 7, c. 1, compared • Ff. 1, 1, 9. with Barbeyrac's commentary. ° Inst 1, 2, 1. "... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 pages
...by a writer, whose definitions especially have been the theme of almost universal panegyric, " to be a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state." In our system, the legislature of a state is the supreme power, in all cases where its action is not... | |
 | William Blackstone, John Bethune Bayly - 1840 - 764 pages
...has established for its own government," Municipal law, thus understood, is properly defined to be "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong." How the several forms of government we now see in the world at first actually began is matter of great... | |
 | James Brown - 1840 - 120 pages
...which nations, in their political capacity, have ever committed. Blackjtone defines municipal jaw to be ''a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wron"." VVi;h the exception of these two sins, this definition has, under all the abuses of despotic... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1840 - 338 pages
...no service to the king or to the public, without hopes of ever changing their owners. MUNICIPAL LAW. A rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state. MURDER. See Homicide. MUSLIN. A fine, thin sort of cotton cloth, bearing a downy nap on its surface.... | |
 | 1860 - 722 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1841 - 626 pages
...and force of the term (taken in this its ordinary sense) may be more fully developed thus, it is " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state." £Let us endeavour to explain its several properties, as they arise out of this definition. And, first,... | |
 | George Bowyer - 1841 - 742 pages
...definition of municipal law, or the law by which each country is separately governed, is, that " it is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state." The law of England, understood in this general sense, as the rule to which all persons within its jurisdiction... | |
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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. 
