Commentaries remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times; no human laws are of any validity... The New Englander - Sivu 3831850Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| George E. Baker - 1855 - 424 sivua
...course superior to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all time. jSTo human laws are of any validity if contrary to this ; and such of them as are valid derive all their authority mediately or immediately from this original." Then, as if despising to stand on any mere... | |
| Aristotle - 1857 - 532 sivua
...which is the duty of every individual in society. Oral. i. contr. Aristogit. Notes on Blackstone. 3 This law of nature, being coeval with mankind, and...himself, is of course superior in obligation to any intuitively divine, even should no intercourse with each other, nor any compact have existed4; which... | |
| William Gannaway Brownlow, Abram Pryne - 1868 - 322 sivua
...homage; the least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power."—Hooker. " This law of nature being coeval with mankind, and...their authority, mediately, or immediately, from this original."—Blackstone, Vol. I, p. 41. " Jurisprudence is the science of what is just and unjust."... | |
| National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - 1880 - 896 sivua
...right. ' No human laws,' says Blackstone, ' are of any validity if contrary to the law of Nature ; and such of them as are valid derive all their force,...authority, mediately or immediately from this original.' A law which is palpably bad and unjust not merely stinks in the .nostrils of all men who think for... | |
| American Home Missionary Society - 1859 - 752 sivua
...British authority, said : " The law of nature being coeval with God himself, is of course superior to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in...this ; and such of them as are valid derive all their authority from this original." Said Washington, when announcing the treaty of peace to the army : "... | |
| William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1860 - 874 sivua
...(and all men possess this in a sufficient degree of strength,) the only conceivable difference between This law of nature, being coeval with mankind, and...obligation to any other. It is binding over all the «rlobe in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1863 - 878 sivua
...law, and then adds, that this law, which he calls " the law of nature," or the law of the creature, is " binding over all the globe, in all countries,...laws are of any validity if contrary to this." And further, that God has also made a revelation of this same will to man, and that "upon these two foundations,... | |
| Charles Tennant - 1864 - 486 sivua
...Sir William Blackstone wrote: " No human laws are of any validity if contrary to the law of nature; and such of them as are valid derive all their force...authority mediately or immediately from this original." This is good for teaching that a legislature does not necessarily exercise a divine right, but only... | |
| Charles Tennant - 1864 - 502 sivua
...other laws : that no human laws are of any validity if contrary to them : that all human laws which are valid, derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from those divine originals." From this is to be inferred that, no human law which conflicts with the law... | |
| William Blackstone - 1865 - 642 sivua
...This is the foundation of what we call ethics or natural law; which, being coeval with mankind, is superior in obligation to any other. It is binding...no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to its precepts; and such of them as are valid derive all their force and all their authority, mediately... | |
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