 | Wisconsin Butter Makers' Association - Agriculture - 1920 - 124 pages
...Blackstone, that celebrated English jurist whose "Commentaries" on the English law ranks as a classic, says: "Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action * * * And it is that rule of action which is prescribed by some superior, and which the inferior is bound to... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Sisk - English language - 1903 - 276 pages
...The Stamp Act was a direct tax laid upon the whole American people by Parliament. — John Fiske. 18. Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action. — Blackstone. 19. A wide-spreading, hopeful disposition is your only true umbrella in this vale of... | |
 | Edgar Benton Kinkead - Jurisprudence - 1905 - 496 pages
...limited sense, was furnished by Blackstone. "Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense," he says "signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately...whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational." In its confined sense, it denotes the rules of human action and conduct. "Municipal law" he defines... | |
 | M. E. Dunlap (Counsellor at law) - Law - 1905 - 620 pages
...it signifies a rule of action dictated by some superior, and which the inferior is bound to obey. It is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action,...whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational; as, for example, we speak of the laws of motion, of gravitation, «t optics, or mechanics, as well... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 724 pages
...of the legislature, rendered authentic by certain prescribed forms and solemnities. (Id.) The word law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action (1 Bl. Com., 38); a rule of action prescribed by some supreme being. (Id.) 207 Woodruff v. Trapnall.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 1482 pages
...of the Legislature, rendered authentic by certain prescribed forms and solemnities. Ibid. The word "law," in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action (1 Bl. Com. 38) ; a rule of action prescribed by some supreme being. Ibid. Municipal law is a rule... | |
 | Sir John William Salmond - Jurisprudence - 1913 - 582 pages
...Hooker,1 " we term any kind of rule or canon whereby actions are framed a law." So Blackstone says : 2 " Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense,...Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of opties or mechanies, as well as the laws of nature and of nations." Of law in this sense there are... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1915 - 1632 pages
...and constitution of their country. i 50 OF THE NATURE OF LAWS IN GENERAL. § 36. Meaning of law. — Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense,...Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of opties, or mechanies, as well as the laws of nature and of nations. And it is that rule of action,... | |
 | William Fenton Myers - New York (State) - 1918 - 560 pages
...too narrow. Blackstone, the early English writer, in his "Commentaries," says, in defining the term: "Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action." Attempting to enlarge and make clear this definition, he then proceeds to further define it to be "a... | |
 | Roland Roberts Foulke - International law - 1920 - 586 pages
...the necessary relations arising from the nature of things," Montesquie, "Spirit of Laws," Book I, 1. "Law in its most general and comprehensive sense,...whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational," Blackstone, Comm., Introduction, Sec. II. " But laws, in their more confined sense . . . denote the... | |
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Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action ; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. 
