 Every positive law, or every law simply and strictly so called, is set by a sovereign person, or a sovereign body of persons, to a member or members of the independent political society wherein that person or body is sovereign or supreme. Or (changing...  Elements of Roman Law - Page 2by Gaius - 1871 - 543 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Law - 1832 - 536 pages
...independent political society wherein that person or body is sovereign or supreme. Or (changing the phrase) it is set by a monarch, or sovereign number, to a...or persons in a state of subjection to its author. " To elucidate the nature of sovereignty, and of the independent political society that sovereignty... | |
 | Great Britain - 1832 - 496 pages
...disquisition on the nature of laws in general. or body is sovereign or supreme. Or (changing the expression) it is set by a monarch or sovereign number to a person...or persons in a state of subjection to its author." The term positive, that is, existing by position, he has adopted, as serving more commodiously than... | |
 | John Austin - Jurisprudence - 1832 - 512 pages
...independent political society wherein that person or body is sovereign or supreme. Or (changing the phrase) it is set by a monarch, or sovereign number, to a...or persons in a state of subjection to its author. To elucidate the nature of sovereignty, and of the independent political society that sovereignty implies,... | |
 | Henry Wheaton - International law - 1836 - 410 pages
...nations, is not positive law ; for every positive law is prescribed by a given superior or sovereign to a person or persons in a state of subjection to its author. The rule regarding the conduct of sovereign states, considered as related to each other, is termed... | |
 | Henry Wheaton - Europe - 1845 - 820 pages
...nations is not positive law ; for every positive law is prescribed by a given superior or sovereign to a person or persons in a state of subjection to its anthor. The rule regardiug the conduct of sovereign states, considered as related to each other, is... | |
 | Law - 1861 - 430 pages
...political society ' wherein that person or body is sovereign or supreme. Or, changing the expression, it is set by a monarch, or sovereign number, to a...or persons in a state of subjection to its author. Even though it sprang directly from another fountain or source, it is a positive law, or a law strictly... | |
 | Law - 1862 - 422 pages
...nations obtaining between nations is not positive law, for every positive law is eet by a given sovereign to a person or persons in a state of subjection to its author." * He further adds, that " the law * Austin on Jurisprudence, p. 208. obtaining between nations is law... | |
 | American essays - 1889 - 876 pages
...independent political society wherein that person or body is sovereign or supreme. In other words, it is set by a monarch or sovereign number to a person...or persons in a state of subjection to its author." " It follows that the power of a monarch, properly so called, or the power of a sovereign number in... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 774 pages
...commonly known as Jurisprudence: laws set by political superiors to political inferiors (p. 199) ; set by a monarch or sovereign number, to a person or persons in a state of subjection to the author. 3d. Laws of Positive Morality, embracing positive moral rules proper (distinguished, however,... | |
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