 | Jacob Gilbert Forman - Slavery - 1851 - 52 pages
...himself, is superior in obligation to any other: 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." Specifying a particular act forbidden by God's law, he says : " If any human law should allow or enjoin... | |
 | 1852 - 394 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. But in order to apply this to the particular exigencies of each individual, it is still necessary to... | |
 | John W. Lewis (Eld.) - African American Baptists - 1852 - 306 pages
...the globe, in all countries, and at all times ; no human laws are of validity, if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid, derive all their force and all their authority, mediately and immediately, from this original." BLACKSTONE. In conclusion, we ask the reader to carefully study... | |
 | Aristotle - 1857 - 532 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. Blackstone, Comment. Introduct. § 2, p. 41. 4 See the subject of natural law admirably illustrated... | |
 | William Gannaway Brownlow, Abram Pryne - History - 1868 - 322 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,...their authority, mediately, or immediately, from this original."—Blackstone, Vol. I, p. 41. " Jurisprudence is the science of what is just and unjust."... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 874 pages
...«rlobe 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...their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original.5 But, in order to apply this to the particular exigencies of each individual, it is still... | |
 | Charles Tennant - Utilitarianism - 1864 - 486 pages
...oppressions and miseries which ensue, the practice is still persisted in. Sir William Blackstone wrote: " No human laws are of any validity if contrary to the...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 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." From this is to be inferred that, no human law which conflicts with the law... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1865 - 642 pages
...in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to its precepts; and such of them as are valid derive all their force...authority, mediately or immediately, from this original. If man were to live in a state of nature, unconnected with other individuals, there would be no occasion... | |
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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... 
