| Caroline Frances Cornwallis - Criminal law - 1846 - 108 pages
...L By what right does man control his fellow-man^ " The absolute rights of man," says Blackstone, " considered as a free agent, endowed with discernment to know good from evil .... are usually summed up in one general appellation, and denominated, the natural liberty of mankind."... | |
| Criminal law - 1846 - 170 pages
...I. By what right does man control his fellow man ? " The absolute rights of man," says Blackstone, "considered as a free agent, endowed with discernment to know good from evil .... are usually summed up in one general appellation, and denominated, the natural liberty of mankind."... | |
| Philosophy - 1846 - 492 pages
...it. I. By what right does man control his fellow-man f "The absolute rights of man," says Blackstone, "considered as a free agent, endowed with discernment to know good from evil .... are usually summed up in one general appellation, and denominated, the natural liberty of mankind."... | |
| 412 pages
...the sovereign, or the senate, holdin;' and exercising authority. Blackstone rather abstractedly says, "the absolute rights of man, considered as a free agent, endowed with a discernment to know good from evil, are usually summed up in one general appellation, and denominated... | |
| John Pickering - Business & Economics - 1847 - 222 pages
...gnrl p""""y ind nf human Inwp, i» TO mriinJqyLMauL regulate these absolute rights of individuals. " The absolute rights of man, considered as a free*...agent," endowed with discernment to know good from evil, (or pleasure from pain,) and with power of choosing those measures which appear to him to be most desirable,... | |
| John Boag - English language - 1848 - 744 pages
...iu a general sense, and applicable to the body, to the will or mind. Natural liberty consists in the power of acting as one thinks fit, without any restraint or control, except from the laws of nature. Civil liberty is the liberty of men in a state of society, or natural... | |
| Cassius Marcellus Clay - History - 1848 - 550 pages
...with others, of air, light, water." Paley's Works, chap. X., p. 42. Philadelphia edition : 1831. " Natural liberty consists properly in a power of acting as one thinks just, without any restraint or control ; unless by the law of nature ; being a right inherent in us... | |
| Charles Elliott - History - 1850 - 372 pages
...and which every man is entitled to enjoy, whether out of society or in it. The ABSOLUTE RIGHTS of man are usually summed up in one general appellation,...properly in a power of acting as. one thinks fit, • 103 without any consent or control, unless by the law of nature; being a right inherent in us by... | |
| Bayard Taylor - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1854 - 672 pages
...physical force operates to restrain his actions or volitions. — Natural liberty^ consists in the power of acting as one thinks fit, without any restraint or control, except from the laws of nature. It is a state of exemption from the control of others, and from positive... | |
| John Bouvier - Law - 1855 - 774 pages
...occupied in society since his manumission. L< r. El. Dr. Rom. §93. LIBERTY. Freedom from restraint. The power of acting as one thinks fit, without any restraint or control, except from the laws of nature. 2. Liberty is divided into civil, natural, personal, and political.... | |
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