...York, f 10, net. " Centralization and the Law." One conception underlies Blackstone's definition : " Law is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a State, commanding what is right and forbidding what is wrong." This definition assumes that law is something...

...1 Bl. Com. 44. This is the definition of municipal or civil law. Blackstone's definition, in full, is, " a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong." The last clause has been made the subject...

...beginning which we have described we arrive in time at a stage where there is a necessity for law, or " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong."* ." It is unnecessary to go further into...

...beginning which we have described we arrive in time at a stage where there is a necessity for law, or " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong." 1 After property has been acquired, after...

...speaking of the concrete subject of municipal or civil law, he added that it is properly defined to be : ''A rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a State, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong." Whether, in its origin, the law, as the analytical...

...should receive the recognition to which he is entitled. Municipal law is defined by Blackstone to be, "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong." Such rules include the declarations of the...

...Publicists, past Cicero, to Chrysippus, and defined municipal law, the law of a single state or nation, as "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong." That rule of conduct, insofar as it deals...

...revolutionary in turn.51 Blackstone's ambivalence was neatly summed up in his oft-quoted definition of "Law": A rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong.52 How much of law is "power?" How much right...

...obliged to point out that the definition of law was sufficiently expressed by Blackstone's phrase, "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state." The remaining words — viz., "commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong" — offered...

...because they happened to be true of necessity. In this vein, Blackstone taught that the law represents "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong. "40 Years later, professors of law would sneer...