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Social Statics: Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified ... - Page 230
by Herbert Spencer - 1868 - 523 pages
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An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order ..., Volume 1

John Erskine - Law - 1824 - 602 pages
...globe, in all coun" tries, and at all times ; no human laws are of any validity rf contrary to this : and " such of them as are valid, derive all their...authority, mediately or " immediately, from this original." (I. Blackst. 41.) And as is noticed by Professor Christian, in a note on the above passage : — "...
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Commentaries on the laws of England. [Another], Volume 1

sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 660 pages
...globe, in all countries, and at all times : no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this ; and such of them as are valid derive all their force...authority, mediately or immediately, from this original. (2) BUT in order to apply this to the particular exigencies of each individual, it is still necessary...
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Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Volume 1

William Blackstone - 1825 - 572 pages
...globe, in all countries, and at all times : no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this ; and such of them as are valid derive all their force...authority, mediately or immediately, from this original. (2) BUT in order to apply this to the particular exigencies of each individual, it is still necessary...
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Broadstone of Honor

Kenelm Henry Digby - Chivalry - 1826 - 330 pages
...globe, in all countries, and at all times : no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this ; and such of them as are valid, derive all their force...authority, mediately or immediately from this original/' — " And as the moral precepts of the revealed law " (among which, that which commands to give alms,...
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The African Observer

Slavery - 1828 - 390 pages
...in all countries and at all times ; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this ; and such as are valid, derive all their force and all their...authority, mediately or immediately, from this original. "t * That for which a thing is such, is itself more such, t Com. Introd. 40. Negro Slavery. Laws, therefore,...
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On the Revenues of the Church of England: Exhibiting the Rise and Progress ...

George Coventry - Church of England - 1830 - 232 pages
...course superior in obli' gation to any other.—No 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.' Therefore, as the learned Commentator has asserted in another place, that ' the law relative to tithes...
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India's Cries to British Humanity: Relative to Suttee, Infanticide, British ...

James Peggs - Hindu ethics - 1830 - 556 pages
...globe, in all countries, and at all times ; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this ; and such of them as are valid derive all their force...authority mediately or immediately from this original.' The most strenuous defenders of this horrid imposition of the powerful on the weaker part of mankind...
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The baptist Magazine

1832 - 606 pages
...the globe in all countries, and at all times; no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force...all their authority, mediately or immediately from their original." This most judicious cornmentor upon the laws of England thus proceeds : " This has...
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The Province of Jurisprudence Determined

John Austin - Jurisprudence - 1832 - 512 pages
...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." The foregoing passage would seem to import, that no human law which conflicts...
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India's Cries to British Humanity: Relative to Infanticide, British ...

James Peggs - Ethics - 1832 - 550 pages
...globe, in all countries, and at all times ; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this ; and such of them as are valid, derive all their force and authority mediately or immediately from this original.' The most strenuous defenders, of this imposition...
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