 | John Bouvier - Law - 1854 - 674 pages
...do whatever is permitted by the constitution of the state, or the laws ' of the land. It is no other than natural liberty, so far restrained by human laws, and no further, operating equally upon all the citizens, as is necessary and expedient for the general advantage of... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1856 - 612 pages
...Blackstone, as follows : — " Political or civil liberty, which is that of a member of society, is no other than natural liberty, so far restrained by human laws...law which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow-citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind ; but that... | |
 | Literature - 1857 - 528 pages
...civil liberty to be " no other than natural liberty so fur restrained by human laws, (and no farther,) as is necessary and expedient for the general advantage of the public." Now, if he had said that this was the best kind of civil liberty, he would have uttered the precise... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - Dictionaries, Law - 1859 - 736 pages
...member of society, being a man's natural liberty, so far restrained by human laws, (and no farther,) as is necessary and expedient for the general advantage of the public. 1 Ж Com. 125. 2 Steph. CW. 487. The power of doing whatever the laws permit. 1 Bl. Com. 6. Inst. 1.... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 874 pages
...of society, and ¡я no other than natural liberty so far restrained by human laws (and no farther) as is necessary and expedient for the general advantage of the public." Mr. Paley begins his excellent chapter upon civil liberty with the following definition: — " Civil... | |
 | James C. Street, Frederic Richard Lees, Dawson Burns - Alcoholism - 1862 - 558 pages
...rights. Civil liberty is die power to do whatever is permitted by the laws of the land. It is no other than natural liberty so far restrained by human laws...expedient for the general advantage of the public." Now, in view of the admitted wrongs to individuals, and burdens and taxes upon the public, through... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1865 - 642 pages
...of life. Political, therefore, or civil liberty, which is that of a member of society, is no other than natural liberty so far restrained by human laws...law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellowcitizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind; but that... | |
 | Edward Cornelius Delavan - Temperance - 1865 - 284 pages
...rights. Civil liberty is the power to do whatever is permitted by the laws of the land. It is no other than natural liberty so far restrained by human laws...expedient for the general advantage of the public." Now, in view of the admitted wrongs to individuals, and burdens and taxes upon the public, through... | |
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Political, therefore, or civil liberty, which is that of a member of society, is no other than natural liberty so far restrained by human laws (and no farther) as is necessary and expedient for the general advantage of the public. 
