 AW, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies , a rule of action ; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether 'animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics,...  The First Book of the Law: Explaining the Nature, Sources, Books, and ... - Page 26by Joel Prentiss Bishop - 1868 - 466 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Combe - Phrenology - 1841 - 454 pages
...bodies, governed by invariable laws.' — Spirit of Laws, bici Justice Blackstone observes, that ' Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense,...say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature and of nations. Thus, when the Supreme Being formed the... | |
 | George Combe - Human beings - 1841 - 464 pages
...bodies, governed by invariable laws.' — Spirit of Laws, bici Justice Blackstone observes, that ' Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense,...say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of Nature and of nations.'-' Thus, when the Supreme Being formed... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1847 - 662 pages
...St. PauFs Doctrine of the Law. VARIOUS definitions have been given of law. According to Blackstone, " law, in its most general and comprehensive sense,...say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature and of nations. And it is that rule of action which is... | |
 | George Combe - Phrenology - 1845 - 498 pages
...bodies, governed by invariable laws.'— Spirit of Laws, b. i, ci Justice Blackstone observes, that ' alth. The pain was mo or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature and of nations. Thus, when the Supreme Being formed the... | |
 | Daniel Chipman - Judges - 1846 - 422 pages
...the limits within which we are to proceed. Judge Blackstone tells us that, " law in its most general comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action ; and is applied indiscriminately to all action, whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational." Such is the sense which general custom... | |
 | Andrew White Young - Constitutional history - 1839 - 384 pages
...Law — Law of Nations. § 19. LAW, in its widest sense, signifies a rule of action, and is applied to all kinds of action, whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. According to established principles in nature, all matter tends to decay ; all ponderous bodies determine... | |
 | John Craig (F.G.S.) - 1849 - 1148 pages
...(laga, lagt, lag, or Iah, Saz. ¡ад, Swed. loi, Fr. ley, Span.) In its most general and comprehensivo sense, signifies a rule of action ; and is applied...inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the law» of motion, of gravitation, of optics, of mechanics, as well as the laws of nature and of nations:... | |
 | George Combe - Phrenology - 1850 - 452 pages
...bodies, governed by invariable laws.' — Spirit of Laws, b. i, ci Justice Blackstone observes, that ' Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense,...say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature and of nations. Thus, when the Supreme Being formed the... | |
 | George Combe - Medical - 1853 - 460 pages
...bodies, governed by invariable laws.' — Spirit of Laws, bici Justice Blackstone observes, that ' Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense,...action, whether animate or inanimate, rational or irratwnal. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of opties, or mechanies, as well as the... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1854 - 980 pages
...charter, but from a legal definition of the word as used by lawyers of all ages. Blackstone says that '• Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action," and it is that rule of action which is prescribed by some superior, and which the inferior is bound to... | |
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