| William Blackstone - 1800 - 678 strani
...it. THIS law of nature, being coeval with mankind and dictated by God himfclf, is of courfe fuperior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe in ai! countries, and at all times : no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this (3); and fuch... | |
| John Poyer - 1808 - 716 strani
...selfdefence ; and no human jurisdiction has a legitimate power to deprive him of this sacred privilege. This law of nature, being coeval with mankind,, and dictated by God himself^ is of superior obligation to any other. No human laws ate of any .validity;, if contrary to this* Such a... | |
| William Findley - 1812 - 380 strani
...interest to pursue this line of conduct, so far as that our self-love comes frequently in aid of our duty. The law of nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior to, and the foundation of, all other laws. It is binding all over the globe, in all countries, and... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1823 - 416 strani
...of reason to discover the purport of those laws. This law of Nature,*' he afterwards observes *, " being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to every other. It is binding all over the globe, in all countries, and at all times : no human laws are... | |
| John Erskine - 1824 - 602 strani
...the obligations of LAW." 2 It is in the same spirit laid down by Blackstone, in general terms, that " the " law of nature being coeval with mankind, and...any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all coun" tries, and at all times ; no human laws are of any validity rf contrary to this : and " such... | |
| James Peggs - 1830 - 556 strani
...own nature and essence invalid. Blackstone, speaking of the law of nature, says, 'this law of nature, coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself,...superior in obligation to any other. It is binding all over the globe, in all countries, and at all times ; no human laws are of any validity if contrary... | |
| James Peggs - 1830 - 560 strani
...nature and essence invalid. Blackstone, speaking of the law of nature, says, ' this law of nature, coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. [t is binding all over the globe, in all countries, and at all times ; no human laws are of any validity... | |
| George Coventry - 1830 - 232 strani
...trade, or the cause of oppression to a country; V for as Judge Blackstone truly observes, ' This ' law being coeval with mankind, and dictated ' by God himself, is of course superior in obli' gation to any other.—No human laws are of ' any validity if contrary to this; and such of '... | |
| James Peggs - 1832 - 550 strani
...is in its own nature invalid. Blackstone, speaking of the law of nature, says, 'this law of nature, coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself,...superior in obligation to any other. It is binding all over the globe, in all countries, and at all times ; no human laws are of any validity if contrary... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1837 - 488 strani
...restrained ; and gave him also the faculty of reason to discover the purport of those laws. * » * This Law of Nature, being coeval with mankind, and dictated...God himself, is of course superior in obligation to every other. It is binding all over the globe, in all countries, and at all times : no human laws are... | |
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