| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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