...a rule? It is a law. We all remember when, in our incipient studies, we were taught that a law was "a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power of a State, commanding what is right, and forbidding what is wrong." The supreme is the legislative power; and this must be...

...a rule' It is a law. We all remember when, in our incipient studies, we were taught that a law was "a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power of a State, commanding what u right, and forbidding what is wrong." The supreme is the legislative power; and this must be...

...defined by Blackstone, is a rule by which particular districts, communities or nations are governed; a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power of a state, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong. [Municipal, derived from a Latin word, had reference...

...defined by Blackstone, is a rule by which particular districts, communities or nations are governed; a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power of a state, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong. Municipal, derived from a Latin word, had reference to...

...imitari maluerunt. Quanto melius singulorum juribus semper studuit Ecclesia! (2) " Municipal law is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power of a state." Biackatone. tota agnoscit Ecclesia: " Doctrina ну nodi asserens ad supremam civilem potestatem dumtaxat...

...to give separate definitions of the word law, as it is variously applied. Municipal or civil law, is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power of a state, commanding what its subjects are to do, and prohibiting what they are to forbear. The law of nature, otherwise...

...the general sense of the people have defined it to be, in the words he quotes from Noah Webster, " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the Supreme power of a State, commanding what its subjects are to do, and prohibiting what they are to forbear." Or, as Heineccius describes...

...these definitions—one that probably embraces the essence of all the rest—is this: That " law is a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power of a state, commanding what its subjects are to do, and prohibiting what they are to forbear." Noah Webster. In this definition,...

...are supreme and irresistible. If, then, law really be, what this definition would make it, merely " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power of a state " — it would follow, as a necessary consequence, that law is synonymous merely with will and force,...

...interests. In other words, it is a power to dispense with the law at pleasure. Law is defined to be a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power of a State. It is prescribed, enacted before hand, not a mere sudden order or edict, made to suit a particular...