 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 440 pages
...rights a - individuals." Again : — " If any human law shall allow or require us to commit crime, we are bound to transgress that human law, or else we must offend both the natural and divine." COKE says : — "What the Parliament doth, shall be holden for naught, whenever it shall enact... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 432 pages
...absolute rights of individuals." Again : — " If any human law shall allow or require us to commit crime, we are bound to transgress that human law, or else we must offend both the natural and divine." COKE says : — "What the Parliament doth, shall be holden for naught, whenever it shall enact... | |
 | William Gannaway Brownlow - 1858 - 336 pages
...conscience to abstain from its perpetration. Nay, if any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit it, we are bound to transgress that human law, or else we must offend both the natural and the divine." — Elackstone, Vol. 1, p. 42, 43. "Those rights then which God and nature have established, and are... | |
 | William Gannaway Brownlow, Abram Pryne - 1868 - 322 pages
...conscience to abstain from its perpetration. Nay, if any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit it, we are bound to transgress that human law, or else...we must offend both the natural and the divine."— Elackstone, Vol. 1, p. 42, 43. '" Those rights then which God and nature have established, and are... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1860 - 464 pages
...rights of individuals. Again : — " If any human law shall allow or require us to commit crime, we arc bound to transgress that human law, or else we must offend both the natural and divine." COKE says : — ""What the Parliament doth, shall be holden for naught, whenever it shall... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1863 - 812 pages
...of abstaining from its perpetration. [Nay, if any human law should allow or injoin us to commit it, we are bound to transgress that human law, or else we must offend both the natural and the divine. But, with regard to matters that are in themselves indifferent, and are not commanded or forbidden... | |
 | Herbert Broom - 1874 - 880 pages
...Max., 9th ed., 2; Finch's Law 75, law, and if any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit it, we are bound to transgress that human law, or else we must offend hoth the natural and the divine.1 " Neither are positive laws, even in matters seemingly indifferent,... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1875 - 860 pages
...scientiœ, to abstain from its perpetration. Nay, if any human law should *allow or enjoin us to commit it, we are bound to transgress that human law, or else we must offend both the natural and the divine. But, with regard to matters that are in themselves indifferent, and are not commanded or forbidden... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1891 - 336 pages
...says he, speaking of the act he instances, ‘if any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit it, we are BOUND TO TRANSGRESS that human law, or else we must offend both the natural and the divine.' XIX. The propriety of this dangerous maxim, so far Da¿¿'ous as the Divine Law is concerned, is what... | |
 | James Mitchell Ashley - 1894 - 944 pages
...maintain those absolute rig-hts of individuals." "If any human law shall require us to commit crime, we are bound to transgress that human law, or else we must offend both the natural and divine." — BLACKSTONE. "What the Parliament doth shall be holden for naug-ht whenever it shall enact... | |
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Nay, if any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit it, we are bound to transgress that human law, or else we must offend both the natural and the divine. 
