 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
 | Augustus Choate Hamlin - 1866 - 290 sivua
...7 dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding all over the globe, in all countries and at all times : no...authority, mediately or immediately, from this original. Human laws originate in the wisdom of man, and are designed to regulate their behavior to one another,... | |
 | John George Marshall - 1866 - 192 sivua
...and evil, and which law he defines to be " the' will of the Creator," he writes as follows : — " This law of nature being coeval with mankind, and...It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, at all times. No human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this ; and such of them as are valid,... | |
 | Richard M Battistoni - 2000 - 198 sivua
...shall pursue his own true and substantial happiness." Blackstone, in his Commentaries, remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind, and...superior in obligation to any other. It is binding all over the globe, in all countries, and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary... | |
 | Edward Joseph White - 2000 - 468 sivua
...Scriptures" as a revelation of divine law, which is superior in obligation to the laws made by man, which are binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times, quod naturalis ratio inter omnes homines constituit vocatur jus gentium. The Babylonian Epic of Creation,... | |
 | James Mill - 2001 - 460 sivua
...that action is destructive of man's real happiness, and therefore, that the law of nature forbids it. This law of nature, being coeval with mankind, and...authority, mediately or immediately from this original." * In the opinion of Blackstone, self-love is not * Hlucksluuc's CoinmciiUrk-s on the Lawn of England,... | |
 | Richard P. Horwitz - 2001 - 420 sivua
...shall pursue his own true and substantial happiness." Blackstone in his Commentaries remarks, that his law of Nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated...as are valid, derive all their force, and all their validity, and all their authority, mediately and immediately, from this original; therefore, RESOLVED,... | |
 | Bernard H. Siegan - 356 sivua
...belief in both the supremacy of the legislature and of the natural law? "This law of nature," he wrote, "being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself,...no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this."138 Another explanation that might reconcile Blackstone's seemingly contradictory positions on... | |
 | Charles W. Colson, Nancy Pearcey - 2001 - 398 sivua
...all countries and at all times," wrote the great eighteenth-century jurist Sir William Blackstone. "No human laws are of any validity, if contrary to...authority mediately or immediately, from this original." Blackstone understood that the genius of Western common law was that it reflected the customs, beliefs,... | |
 | Brian Z. Tamanaha - 2001 - 298 sivua
...in his Commemaries: 'This law of namre ... is of course superior in ohligation to any other. . . . [N]o human laws are of any validity, if contrary to...authority, mediately or immediately, from this original' (quoted in Boorstin l99fi: 49). More recemly, Lon Fuller (l9fi9: l97) asserted in The Morality of Law,... | |
 | Guy Padula - 2002 - 214 sivua
..."law of nature, coeval with mankind," which "is of course superior in obligation to any other: ... no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this;...such of them as are valid derive all their force and their authority . . . from this original," but then immediately asserts, "there is and must be in all... | |
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