 | Herbert Spencer - 1898 - 562 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...all their authority, mediately or immediately, from Ihis original." (Chitty's Blackstone, Vol. I., pp. 37-8.) Of like character is another verdict, given... | |
 | James Booth Converse - 1899 - 264 pages
...world, 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 revealed law is of infinitely more authority than that ethical system which is framed by moral... | |
 | James Mill - 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 - 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,... | |
 | David Lyons - 1993 - 250 pages
...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...their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original."4 2 Id. at 867 n.4, item 6. 3 See Hart, "Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals,"... | |
 | Harold J. Berman - 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... | |
 | Luis E. Lugo - 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 - 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 - 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... | |
 | St. George Tucker, William Blackstone - 2000 - 3301 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,...mediately or. immediately, from this original. But in order-to apply this.to the particular exigencies of each individual, it is still necessary to have... | |
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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... 
