 | 1897 - 588 pages
...idea of vengeance and retaliation in the form of what is known as punishment. According to Blackstone, "No human laws are of any validity if contrary to...authority, mediately or immediately, from this original." In spite of the fact that jurists, criminologists, and students of social problems concur in the opinion... | |
 | Albert Venn Dicey - Constitutional law - 1897 - 504 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;"2 and expressions are sometimes used by modern judges which imply that the Courts might... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Philosophy - 1898 - 524 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." (Chilly's Blacfalone, Vol. I., pp. 37-8.) Of like character is another verdict, given by one who treated... | |
 | James Mill - History - 1992 - 366 pages
...globe, in all countries, and at all times. No human laws are of anv validity, if contrary to this: and such of them as are valid derive all their force,...authority, mediately or immediately from this original.* In the opinion of Blackstone; self-love is not only the uni-ersal prinriple of action, but, what is... | |
 | Susan W. Brenner - Law - 394 pages
...over all the globe . . . 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 all their authority ... from this original. But in order to apply this to the particular exigencies of each individual,... | |
 | Harold J. Berman - Religion - 2000 - 432 pages
...binding . . . 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 originaL21 In the past two generations the public philosophy of America has shifted radically from... | |
 | David Lyons - Law - 1993 - 250 pages
...is William Blackstone, who, although sometimes called a formalist,3 wrote in his Commentaries that "no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to [the law of nature that is dictated by God]; and such of them as are valid derive all their force and all their authority,... | |
 | Luis E. Lugo - Religion - 1995 - 290 pages
...legitimacy from the natural law — "no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this [law], and such of them as are valid derive all their force,...their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original."58 The American Founders generally embraced the five propositions set forth above, and although... | |
 | Edward L. Farmer - Social Science - 1995 - 282 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 [1765] 1979, 1:41). Natural law was a Western, not a Chinese, notion and we are cautioned... | |
 | George Parkin Grant - Philosophy - 1995 - 164 pages
...all times. No human laws are of any validity if contrary to this and such of them as are valid derive their force and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original.' The distinction between natural law and positive law was then clear. Positive laws are the laws that... | |
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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... 
