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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. "
The Works of the Honourable James Wilson, L. L. D.: Late One of the ... - Page 459
by James Wilson - 1804
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Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Volume 1

Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 686 pages
...to [43] 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 the divine. But with regard to matters that are in themselves indifferent, and are not commanded or forbidden by...
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A Fragment on Government; Or, a Comment on the Commentaries:: Being an ...

Jeremy Bentham - Law - 1823 - 216 pages
...he, speaking of the act he instances, " 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." XIX. The propriety of this dangerous maxim, so Dangerous . . . . tendency of it. far as the Divine...
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Commentaries on the Laws of England, Volume 1

Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 660 pages
...to abstain from its perpetration. (3) 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. But with regard to matters that are in themselves indifferent, and are not commanded or forbidden by...
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Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Volume 1

William Blackstone - 1825 - 572 pages
...to abstain from its perpetration. (3) 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. But with regard to matters that are in themselves indifferent, and are not commanded or forbidden by...
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Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books ; with an ..., Volume 1

William Blackstone - Law - 1836 - 694 pages
...conscicntite to abstain from its perpetration. Nay, if any human law should allow or injoin us to commit it, we are bound to transgress that human law, or else we must offend both the natural and the divine. But, with regard to matters that are in themselves indifferent, and are not commanded or forbidden...
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Select Extracts from Blackstone's Commentaries ... With a glossary ...

Sir William BLACKSTONE - 1837 - 468 pages
...conscientia to abstain from its perpetration. Nay, if any human law should allow OP enjoin us to commit it, we are bound to transgress that human law, or else we must offend both the natural and the divine. But with regard to matters that are in themselves indifferent, and are not commanded or forbidden by...
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The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected: Under the Superintendence ...

Jeremy Bentham - 1838 - 334 pages
...says he, speaking of the act he instances, " 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." XIX. The propriety of this dangerous maxim, so far as the Divine Law is concerned, is what I must refer...
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The Rights of Persons, According to the Text of Blackstone: Incorporating ...

William Blackstone, James Stewart - Civil rights - 1839 - 556 pages
...abstain F 43 1 from it's perpetration. Nay, if any human law should allow or injoin us to commit it, we are bound to transgress that human law, or else we must offend both the natural and the divine. But with regard to matters that are in themselves indifferent, and are not commanded or forbidden by...
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New Commentaries on the Laws of England: (Partly Founded on Blackstone).

Henry John Stephen - English law - 1841 - 626 pages
...of abstaining from its perpetration. [[Nay, if any human law should allow or injoin us to commit it, we are bound to transgress that human law, or else we must offend both the natural and the divine. But, with regard to matters that are in themselves indifferent, and are not commanded or forbidden...
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The New Englander, Volume 8

Criticism - 1850 - 676 pages
...conscientice, 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 the divine." — (Introduction, Sec. 2. On the Nature of Laws in general.) The expression of Lord Brougham with...
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