 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 634 pages
...obligation 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 divine." (Vol. i, § 2.) Lord Coke: "That the common law shall control acts of Parliament and sometimes... | |
 | Oscar Liebreich - 1913 - 648 pages
...Thus, in the case of murder, Blackstone says, '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.'1' 14 Blackstone's Commentaries, Vol. 1, p. 42, Christian's Ed., Lond. 1793. "It being obvious... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1914 - 348 pages
...suffered to contradict these. ... If any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit it (ie, murder), we are bound to transgress that human law, or else we must offend both the natural and the divine.'1 Is not this putting into the hands of every fanatic arms that he can use against all governments... | |
 | St. George Tucker, William Blackstone - 2000 - 3301 pages
...to Abstain from it's perpetration. Nay, if any humanJaw 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 - 2001 - 296 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. xix. The propriety of this dangerous maxim, so tar Dangerous as the Divine Law is concerned, is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2001 - 444 pages
...this." "Nay, if any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit a crime" (his instance is murder) "we are bound to transgress that human law; or else we must offend both the natural and divine." Lord Coke held, that w here an act of Parliament is against common right and reason, the common... | |
 | David Lieberman - 2002 - 332 pages
...hypothetical case of a human law commanding individuals to commit murder, Blackstone concluded that "we are bound to transgress that human law, or else we must offend both the natural and the divine. "2* Blackstone then completed this presentation by formally denning "municipal laws "-the law established... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1995 - 292 pages
...this. " "Nay, if any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit a crime" (his instance is murder) "we are bound to transgress that human law; or else we must offend both the natural and divine." Lord Coke held, that where an act of parliament is against common right and reason, the common... | |
 | James Steintrager - 2004 - 144 pages
...held that 'if any human law should allow or enjoin us' to transgress the natural or divine law then 'we are BOUND TO TRANSGRESS that human law, or else we must orfend both the natural and divine'.21 For the reform-minded Bentham such views were dangerous in the... | |
 | James Wilson, Bird Wilson - 2005 - 1436 pages
...desperate remedy. The rule which we have cited from the Commentaries, shows the method that should be followed. In the case supposed, the first law is...by the legislature, to be, at least, not repugnant as of the English constitutions.' Suppose two such repugnant laws to be produced in the same cause,... | |
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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. 
