 | Sir Andrew Reed - Constables - 1895 - 528 pages
...other penalty or punishment is provided, any disobedience is punishable by indictment at common law. The law never speaks but to command, nor commands but where it can compel. Where a statute directs the doing of a thing for the sake of justice or the public good the word may... | |
 | Pharmacy - 1867 - 846 pages
...compelled no one to do anything in particular, would be a "dead letter" indeed. "The law," says Paley, "never speaks but to command, nor commands but where it can compel." My critic is severely humorous on my allusion to the trebled exports of the country. I may not have... | |
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Human laws omit many duties, as not objects of compulsion ; such as piety to God, bounty to the poor, forgiveness of injuries, education of children, gratitude to benefactors. The law never speaks but to command, nor commands but where it can compel... 
