 | Sir William Blackstone - 1791 - 516 Seiten
...moft general and comprehenfive fenfe, fignifies a rule of action ; and is applied indifcriminatcly to all kinds of action, whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we fay, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature and... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1793 - 686 Seiten
...moft general and comprehenfive fenfe, fignifies a rule of action ; and is applied indifcriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we fay, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature and... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 432 Seiten
...moft general and comprehenfive fenfe, iignifics a rule of action ; and is applied indifcriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we fay, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of óptica, of mechanics, as vftll as the laws of nature and... | |
 | John M'Arthur - 1805 - 494 Seiten
...its moft general and comprehenfive fenfe, fignifies a rule of action; and is applied indifcriminately to all kinds of action, •whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational; Thus we fay, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the law of nature and... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - 1807 - 686 Seiten
...SECOND. OF THE NATURE OF LAWS IN - GENERAL. sAW, in its most general and comprehensive sense, sig. in nrs a rule of action ; and is applied indiscriminately...inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature and of nations.... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 700 Seiten
...Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, is defined by Blackstone, in the Commentaries, ' a rule of action,' and is applied indiscriminately...whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. And it is that rule of action which is prescribed by some superior, and which the inferior is bound... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 734 Seiten
...Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, is defined by Blackstone, in the Commentaries, ' a rule of action/ and is applied indiscriminately...whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. And it is that rule of action which is prescribed by some superior, and which the interior is bound... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1810 - 548 Seiten
...states, according to their different constitutions, understood to be law. LAW ; in its most comprehensive sense signifies a rule, of action : and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, animate or inanimate, rational or • irrational. Thus we say the laws of motion, of gravitation, or... | |
 | John Henry Livingston - 1816 - 192 Seiten
...slumbering cen. tinels. •. 1 SECTION IV. LAW. is a rule of action. The term is applied generally to all kinds of action, whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus it is said, there are laws of motion, of gravitation, of attraction, of electricity, of mechanics,... | |
 | Sarah Renou - 1817 - 250 Seiten
...signification is affixed to the term law. ' Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense,' said Charles, { signifies a rule of action,, and is applied indiscriminately...whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. It is that rule of action which is prescribed by some superior, and which the inferior is bound to... | |
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LAW, 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. 
