...day. Men may read history and not have come to this conclusion ; but short-sighted persons ought kind, and dictated by God himself, is, of course, superior...authority, mediately or immediately from this original/' — " And as the moral precepts of the revealed law " (among which, that which commands to give alms,...

...happiness, and therefore that the law of nature forbids it8 This law of nature, being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior...human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this ;3 and such of them as are valid derive all their force and all their authority, mediately or immediately,...

...says judge Blackstone, "is called the law of nature. This law of nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior...are of any validity if contrary to this ; and such as are valid, derive all their force and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original....

...with mankind, and dictated ' by God himself, is of course superior in obli' gation to any other.—No human laws are of ' any validity if contrary to this;...authority, mediately or immediately ' from this original.' Therefore, as the learned Commentator has asserted in another place, that ' the law relative to tithes...

...invalid. Blackstone, speaking of the law of nature, says, 'this law of nature, coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding all over the globe, in all countries, and at all times ; no human laws are of any validity if contrary...

...invalid. Blackstone, speaking of the law of nature, says, ' this law of nature, coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. [t is binding all over the globe, in all countries, and at all times ; no human laws are of any validity...

...mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over the globe in all countries, and at all times; no human...all their authority, mediately or immediately from their original." This most judicious cornmentor upon the laws of England thus proceeds : " This has...

...invalid. Blackstone, speaking of the law of nature, says, 'this law of nature, coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding all over the globe, in all countries, and at all times ; no human laws are of any validity if contrary...

...other laws : that no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to them : that all human laws which are valid, derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from those divine originals." The foregoing passage would seem to import, that no human law which conflicts...

...Orat. i, contr. Aristogit. Notes on Blackstone. • This law of nature, being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior...authority, mediately or immediately, from this original. Blackttone, Comment. Introduct. § 2, p. 41. " See the subject of natural law admirably illustrated...