 | Thomas Hobbes - 1839 - 766 páginas
...bound to himself only, is not bound. ^' When lon£ use obtaineth the authority of a of time, hut of law, it is not the length of time that maketh the...sometimes an argument of consent ; and it is no longer law, than the sovereign And not suhject to civil law. shall be silent therein. And therefore if the... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1839 - 744 páginas
...authority of a not hy virtue ° . J of time, hut of law, it is not the length of time that maketh the 1 " authority, but the will of the sovereign signified...sometimes an argument of consent ; and it is no longer law, than the sovereign shall be silent therein. And therefore if the' sovereign shall have a question... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1839 - 766 páginas
...virtue .. ° ,,.. i , of time, hut of law, it is not the length of time that maketh the consem?relgn " authority, but the will of the sovereign signified...sometimes an argument of consent ; and it is no longer law, than the sovereign shall be silent therein. And therefore if the sove- PART n. reign shall have... | |
 | 1889 - 876 páginas
...and making of new ; and consequently he was free before." " When long use obtaineth the authority of law, it is not the length of time that maketh the...sometimes an argument of consent ; and it is no longer law than the sovereign shall be silent therein." In these passages, manifestly, no countenance or quarter... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1886 - 328 páginas
...thererore he that is bound to himself only, -s not bound. 3. When long use obtaineth the authority of я law, it is not the length of time that maketh the authority, but the wilj fof the sovereign signified by ii^rb. his silence, for silence is sometimes an argument of consent;... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1889 - 932 páginas
...because he that can bind, can release ; and thererore he that is bound to himself only, is not bound. 3. When long use obtaineth the authority of a law, it...sometimes an argument of consent ; and it is no longer law, than the sovereign shall be silent therein. And therefore if the sovereign shall have a question... | |
 | George Hugh Smith - 1893 - 130 páginas
...consonant with equity and reason. But, as we have seen, he elsewhere asserts, and with great force, that it is not in the power of the sovereign to abrogate the...is no longer a law than the Sovereign shall consent therein.'-' But here Hobbes trips in his logic, and is guilty of the fallacy of an undistributed middle.... | |
 | 1896 - 800 páginas
...positively his will in respect to it, Hobbes regards the silence of the sovereign as expressing his will. " When long use obtaineth the authority of a law, it...the will of the sovereign signified by his silence." Leviathan, p. 1z4. religious doctrines of Hobbes obscured for a century the value of much that he wrote.... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1898 - 408 páginas
...because he that can bind, can release ; and therefore he that is bound to himself only, is not bound. 3. When long use obtaineth the authority of a law, it...sometimes an argument of consent; and it is no longer law, than the sovereign shall be silent therein. And therefore if the sovereign shall have a question... | |
 | Leslie Stephen, Frederic William Maitland - 1904 - 280 páginas
...injustice can be a pattern of justice to succeeding judges." No custom, again, can justify itself. If "use obtaineth the authority of a law, it is not the...the will of the sovereign signified by his silence." The tacit consent of a ruler may make a custom law. But " many unjust actions and unjust sentences... | |
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When long use obtaineth the authority of a law, it is not the length of time that maketh the authority, but the will of the sovereign signified by his silence, for silence is sometimes an argument of consent; and it is no longer law than the sovereign... 
