 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Jurisprudence - 1750 - 538 pages
...the pofitive law by which they are eftablilhed : as for inftance, that if human focieties exifted, it would be right to conform to their laws ; if there...received a benefit of another being, they ought to be grateful ; if one intelligent being had created another intelligent being, the latter ought to continue... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Jurisprudence - 1793 - 412 pages
...by which they are eft"ablifhed: as for inftance, that if human focieties exifted, it would be light to conform to their laws; if there were intelligent...received a benefit of another being, they ought to be grateful; if one intelligent being had crented another Intelligent bciug, the latter ought to continue... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1802 - 378 pages
...the poffitive law by which they are eftablifhed : As for inftance, that if human focietres exifted, it would be right to conform to their laws ; if there...received a benefit of another being, they ought to be grateful ; it one intelligent being had created another intelligent being, the latter ought to continue... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Jurisprudence - 1823 - 810 pages
...laws, is the same as saying, that before the describing of a circle, all the radii were not equal. We must therefore acknowledge relations of justice...law by which they are established : as for instance, that if human societies existed, it would be right to conform to J;heir laws ; if there were intelligent... | |
 | William Carpenter - Great Britain - 1833 - 270 pages
...all the constables who deserve it ? — Anon. CHAPTER III. THE FORCE AND AUTHORITY OF LAW. WE must acknowledge relations of justice antecedent to the...law by which they are established : as for instance, that if human societies existed, it would be right to conform to their laws ; if they were intelligent... | |
 | William Carpenter - Great Britain - 1833 - 270 pages
...relations of justice antecedent to the positive law by which they are established : as for instance, that if human societies existed, it would be right to conform to their laws ; if they were intelligent beings that had received a benefit of another being, they ought to show their... | |
 | Law - 1874 - 1178 pages
...saying that before the describing of a circle all the radii were not equal. It is necessary therefore to acknowledge relations of justice antecedent to the positive law by which they are expressed. But the intelligent world (meaning thereby, the human race) is far from being so well governed... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - State, The - 1899 - 492 pages
...positive laws, is the same as saying that before the describing of a circle all the radii were not equal. We must therefore acknowledge relations of justice...intelligent being, the latter ought to continue in its originai state of dependence ; if one intelligent being injures another, it deserves a retaliation... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 458 pages
...positive laws is the same as saying that before the describing of a circle all the radii were not equal. We must therefore acknowledge relations of justice...law by which they are established: as for instance, that if human societies existed it would be right to conform to their laws; if there were intelligent... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge, Francis Whiting Halsey - Literature - 1909 - 282 pages
...positive laws is the same as saying that before the describing of a circle all the radii were not equal. We must therefore acknowledge relations of justice...law by which they are established: as for instance, that if 157 human societies existed it would be right to conform to their laws; if there were intelligent... | |
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Before laws were made, there were relations of possible justice. To say that there is nothing just or unjust but what is commanded or forbidden by positive laws, is the same as saying that before the describing of a circle all the radii were not equal.... 
