 | 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... | |
 | 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
...withdraw from it without committing any such breach ; and he has therefore a right so to withdraw. § 2. " No human laws are of any validity if contrary to the...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... | |
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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... 
