 | George Homer Emerson - 1896 - 616 pages
...Parliament made against natural equity would lie void." He finds this in Blackstone : " The Law of Nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other." From Cudworth he gives this: "Covenants without natural justice are nothing but mere words... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1898 - 524 pages
...taught that natural things are supernaturally ordained, Blackstone wrote: — " This law of nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of 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... | |
 | James Booth Converse - 1899 - 244 pages
...Maker, it is necessary that he should in all points conform to his Maker's will.' " 'The 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 world, in all countries, and at all times; no human laws are... | |
 | Sir William Henry Rattigan - 1899 - 464 pages
...43, Vol. I. CHAP. II. no avail if contrary to the Law of Nature, which, according to Blackstone, " is binding all over the globe in all countries and at all times." But this last quotation is only here made to warn the student of law that this old woman's theory of... | |
 | Frederic Bancroft - 1900 - 576 pages
...(Cincinnati, 1851) gives (pp. 42-45) quotations from many writers on public law: "The 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... | |
 | Sir William Searle Holdsworth - 1909 - 762 pages
..." the grant is void though it be confirmed by Parliament " ; cp. Bl. Comm. i 40, "The 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... | |
 | William Galbraith Miller - 1903 - 504 pages
...happiness.' This is the foundation of what we call ethics or natural law. . . . 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... | |
 | 1904 - 412 pages
...the command of a sovereign body. LAW AND MORALS. BLACKSTONE, COMMENTARIES, I, 41. This law of nature, being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself,...superior in obligation to every other. It is binding over all the globe in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary... | |
 | Edgar Benton Kinkead - 1905 - 496 pages
...destructive of man's real happiness, and therefore that the law of nature forbids it. "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 hitman laws are... | |
 | 1807 - 324 pages
...passages from the Commentaries are given, as being confused and inaccurate : " The law of nature " being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, " is of course superior in obligation to any oiher.\ As " the precepts of the revealed law are of the same origi" nal with those of the law... | |
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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... 
