 | James Coolidge Carter - Jurisprudence - 1907 - 388 pages
...Jurisprudence Determined, limits that province to what he designates as "Positive Law," which he defines thus: "Every positive law, or every law simply and...society wherein that person or body is sovereign or supreme,"1 and he denies that any other so-called laws fall within the scope of jurisprudence. He,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1907 - 590 pages
...set by a sovereign person or a sovereign body of persons, to a member or members of the mdependent political society wherein that person or body is sovereign...the expression) it is set by a monarch, or sovereign member, to a person or persons in state of subjection to its author. Even though it spring from another... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1907 - 584 pages
...set by a sovereign person or a sovereign body of persons, to a member or members of the mdependent political society wherein that person or body is sovereign or supreme. Or (changmg the expression) it is set by a monarch, or sovereign member, to a person or persons in state... | |
 | William Sullivan Pattee - Ethics - 1909 - 310 pages
...intelligent being by an intelligent being having power over him." 39 And positive law, he continues, is one "set by a sovereign person or a sovereign body of...wherein that person or body is sovereign or supreme. In other words, it is set by a monarch or sovereign member, to a person or persons in a state of subjection... | |
 | William Sullivan Pattee - Ethics - 1909 - 304 pages
...intelligent being by an intelligent being having power over him."38 And positive law, he continues, is one "set by a sovereign person or a sovereign body of...wherein that person or body is sovereign or supreme. In other words, it is set by a monarch or sovereign member, to a person or persons in a state of subjection... | |
 | Charles Ellewyin George - Banking law - 1911 - 564 pages
...Jurisprudence Determined," he wrote : "Every positive law or every law simply and strictly so-called, is set by a sovereign person, or a sovereign body...independent political society, wherein that person or society is sovereign and supreme." He denied that any other so-called laws fall within the icope of... | |
 | Henry Percy Farrell - Political science - 1917 - 238 pages
...state, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong." " Every positive law," said Austin, " or every law simply and strictly so called, is set...wherein that person or body is sovereign or supreme." The same idea may be given in Maine's words : Ancient " Bentham in his Fragment of Government, and... | |
 | International law - 1918 - 352 pages
...of " a command set by a sovereign person or a sovereign body of persons to a member or members of an independent political society wherein that person or body is sovereign or supreme." It is true that no international sovereign power is in existence which compels obedience or inflicts... | |
 | Frederick Charles Hicks - International cooperation - 1920 - 546 pages
...every law simply and strictly so 'called is set directly or circuitously by a sovereign person or body, to a member or members of the independent political...or supreme. Or (changing the expression) it is set directly or circuitously by a monarch or sovereign number, to a person or persons in a state of subjection... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby - Constitutional law - 1924 - 530 pages
...in this respect has already been examined.2 We are thus prepared for the statement of Austin that: "Every positive law or every law simply and strictly...wherein that person or body is sovereign or supreme." 3 In another place Austin somewhat expands the statement which we have quoted by saying that every... | |
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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. 
