 | Augustus Choate Hamlin - Nazi concentration camps - 1866 - 290 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. Human laws originate in the wisdom of man, and are designed to regulate their behavior to one another,... | |
 | John George Marshall - Judges - 1866 - 192 pages
...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, derive all their force,...authority, mediately or immediately from this original." He further declares, " Upon these two foundations, — the law of nature, and the law of revelation,... | |
 | 1866 - 452 pages
...None of the laws of the Order are of any validity if they conflict with it ; and such of them as arc valid derive all their force and all their authority, mediately 'or immediately, from this original. The moral law in Masonry may be regarded as written law ; for it is the revealed law, and is found... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1867 - 926 pages
...suppose such a case. nccs, at drunkenness, debauchery, pro- should, like the edict of Herod, command all • their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original./ But, in order to apply this to the particular exigencies of each individual, it is .-.till necessary... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1872 - 776 pages
...globe, in all countries, and at all times : no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; (2) and such of them as are valid derive all their force,...authority, mediately or immediately, from this original. (3) (a) Juris prceccpta «uní koac, tornéete rt'rere, dtterum non lœdere *uum caique îribuere.... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Human beings - 1873 - 556 pages
...he is quite at liberty to do if he likes. He cannot be coerced into political combination without a breach of the law of equal freedom ; he can withdraw...to whom let all honour be given for having so far ontseea the ideas of his time ; and, indeed, we may say of our time. A good antidote, this, for those... | |
 | John Burley Waring - 1873 - 466 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." — (C. Bucke, " Beauties, &c., of Nature, vol., ip 372.) In the " Corpus Juris Canoni," amongst various... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1877 - 548 pages
...§ 2. "No human laws are of any validity if contrary to the law of nature; and such of them as arc valid derive all their force and all their authority...to whom let all honour be given for having so far outsccn the ideas of his time ; and, indeed, we may say of our time. A good antidote, this, for those... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1891 - 324 pages
...course 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." (Chitty's Blacketone, Vol. I., pp. 37-8.) Of like character is another verdict, given by one who treated... | |
 | National association for the promotion of social science - 1880 - 882 pages
...much as they embody sound popular notions of justice and right. ' No human laws,' says Blackstone, ' are of any validity if contrary to the law of Nature...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 themselves,... | |
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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... 
