 | David Novak - 2005 - 292 strani
...conscientiae 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." For the recognition of precedent from Engl1sh common law in United States law, see KL Hall,... | |
 | Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 strani
...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... | |
 | Royal Society of Canada - 1898 - 914 strani
...contradict these. In the case of 'murder, 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 tooth the natural and the divine." "Those rights which God and Nature have established, and are, therefore,... | |
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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. 
