 | Basil Montagu - Capital punishment - 1809 - 338 pages
...little wonder and astonishment. Penal laws, which are either obsolete or absurd, or which have arisen, from an adherence to rules of common law,, when the reasons have ceased upon which these rules ore founded ; fish-pond, whereby the fish may escape : or cutting down a fruit tree in a garden or... | |
 | English literature - 1810 - 554 pages
...attention of the legislature in properly forming and enforcing it ; and that it should be conformable to the dictates of truth and justice, the feelings...of humanity, and the indelible rights of mankind,' proceeds lo tell us, that it has hitherto existed in all the countries, of Europe, a.nd England among... | |
 | James Johnson - Constitutional law - 1811 - 264 pages
...should be founded upon principles that are permanent, uniform, and universal, and always conformable to the dictates of truth and justice, the feelings of humanity, and the indelible rights of mankind ; though it sometimes (provided there be no transgression of these eternal boundaries) may be modified,... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Capital punishment - 1816 - 340 pages
...little wonder and astonishment. Penal laws, which are either obsolete or absurd, or which have arisen, from an adherence to rules of common law when the...truth and justice, the feelings of humanity, and the * See the " Report from the Committee of the House of Commons on Temporary Laws," May 13, 1796 ; and... | |
 | Libel and slander - 1817 - 240 pages
...should be founded upon principles that are permanent, uniform, and universal, and always conformable to the dictates of truth and justice, the feelings...of humanity, and the indelible rights of mankind." — 4th Blackstone, p. 2,3. Give the application of these permanent, uniform, universal, true, just,... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 576 pages
...should be founded upon principles that are permanent, uniform, and universal; and always conformable to the dictates of truth and justice, the feelings of humanity, and the indelible rights of mankind : though it sometimes (provided there be no transgression of * Se« Vol. I. p. 268. c Sir Michael Foster,... | |
 | Roberts Vaux - Correctional institutions - 1826 - 92 pages
...should be founded upon principles that are permanent, uniform, and universal j and always conformable to the dictates of truth and justice, the feelings of humanity, and the indelible rights of mankind."....Blackstone's Com. B. iv. C. i." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United... | |
 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 828 pages
...should be founded upon principles that are permanent, uniform, and universal ; and always conformable to the dictates of truth and justice, the feelings...of humanity, and the indelible rights of mankind." See Blackstone's Comment, b. iv. ch. 1 . and 2. ; Montesquieu, liv. xii. ; Beccaria, Essai/ on Crime*... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1836 - 704 pages
..., told down. principles that are permanent, unitorm, and universal ; and [ *8 ] always conformable to the dictates of truth and justice, the feelings of humanity, and the indelible rights of mankind : though it sometimes (provided there be no transgression of these eternal boundaries) may be modified,... | |
 | Theology - 1847 - 824 pages
...should be founded upon principles that are permanent, uniform and universal; and always conformable to the dictates of truth and justice, the feelings of humanity and the indelible rights of mankind; though it sometimes (provided there be no transgression of their eternal boundaries) may be modified,... | |
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It should be founded upon principles that are permanent, uniform, and universal ; and always conformable to the dictates of truth and justice, the feelings of humanity, and the indelible rights of mankind... 
