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" Every law or rule (taken with the largest signification which can be given to the term properly) is a command. Or, rather, laws or rules, properly so called, are a species of commands. "
The Province of Jurisprudence Determined - Page 118
by John Austin - 1861
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The Jurist, Or, Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence and Legislation, Volume 3

Great Britain - 1832 - 496 pages
...which we are examining. Our author accordingly proceeds, in the first lecture, to examine and determine the essentials of a law or rule, taken -with the largest signification which can, properly, be given to the term. In the second, third, and fourth, he examines the marks or characters...
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The Law Magazine: Or, Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence, Volume 7

Law - 1832 - 536 pages
...present themselves:— " I. In the first of the six lectures into which the treatise is divided, I state the essentials of a law or rule (taken with the largest signification that can be given to the term properly). In other words, 1 determine the essence or nature which is...
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The Solicitors' Journal & Reporter, Volume 8

Law - 1864 - 1034 pages
...perusal ol Lecture I.* will show that ho has been misunderstood by our author. Mr. Austen says, "every law or rule (taken with the largest signification which can be given to the term) properly is a command ; or rather laws or rules properly so called, are a tpecies of commands. Again, ha says,...
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Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law, Volume 1

John Austin, Sarah Austin - Law - 1869 - 628 pages
...slender analogy, they are related to laws merely metapho- I.ECT. vi rical, or laws merely figurative. " (.To distinguish positive laws from the objects now...is the purpose of the present attempt to determine '*jS the province of jurisprudence.^ In pursuance of the purpose to which I have now adverted, I stated,...
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Science and the Gospel, Or, The Church and the Nations: A Series of Essays ...

Anglican and International Christian Moral Science Association - Christian ethics - 1870 - 626 pages
...ethical and juridical phenomena. What, then, is law in the proper acceptation of the term? ' Every law or rule (taken with the largest signification which can be given to the term properly) is a command. Or rather, laws or rules, properly so called, are a species of command V Here, since...
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The sacrifice for sin as revealed in the law and the gospel

J M. Denniston - 1872 - 480 pages
...down for the guidance of an intelligent being by an intelligent being having power over him. "Every law or rule (taken with the largest signification which can be given to the term properly') is a command. " If you express or intimate a wish that I shall do or forbear from some act, and if...
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The Law Magazine and Review: For Both Branches of the Legal ..., Volume 3

Law - 1874 - 1178 pages
...for the guidance of an intelligent being, by an intelligent being having power over him."t " Every law or rule (taken with the largest signification which can be given to the term properly) is a command." Although these are the only express definitions of law given by Austin, it is evident...
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The Armoury, Volume 5

Anti-Catholicism - 1879 - 366 pages
...for the guidance of an intelligent being by an intelligent being having power over him." .... " Every law or rule (taken with the largest signification which can be given to the term properly) is a command. Or, rather, laws or rules, properly so called, are a species of command." ..." The ideas...
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Lectures on Jurisprudence: Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law

John Austin - Jurisprudence - 1880 - 552 pages
...remote or slender analogy, they are related to laws merely metaphorical, or laws merely figurative. To distinguish positive laws from the objects now...of the present attempt to determine the province of of jurisprudence. In pursuance of the purpose to which I have now adverted, I stated, in my first lecture,...
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The Nature of Positive Law

John Mason Lightwood - Jurisprudence - 1883 - 444 pages
...object we have in view. I. To determine the nature of all laws which are laws properly so called. Every law or rule (taken with the largest signification which can be given to the term properly) is a command. Or rather laws or rules, properly so called, are a species of command.1 The meaning of...
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