| Sir William Blackstone - 1791 - 516 頁
...moft general and comprehenfive fenfe, fignifies a rule of action ; and is applied indifcriminatcly to all kinds of action, whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we fay, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature... | |
| William Blackstone - 1793 - 686 頁
...moft general and comprehenfive fenfe, fignifies a rule of action ; and is applied indifcriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we fay, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature... | |
| Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 432 頁
...moft general and comprehenfive fenfe, iignifics a rule of action ; and is applied indifcriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we fay, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of óptica, of mechanics, as vftll as the laws of... | |
| John M'Arthur - 1805 - 494 頁
...its moft general and comprehenfive fenfe, fignifies a rule of action; and is applied indifcriminately to all kinds of action, •whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational; Thus we fay, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the law of nature... | |
| Sir William Blackstone - 1807 - 686 頁
...IN - GENERAL. sAW, in its most general and comprehensive sense, sig. in nrs a rule of action ; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action,...whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature... | |
| William Nicholson - 1809 - 700 頁
...general and comprehensive sense, is defined by Blackstone, in the Commentaries, ' a rule of action,' and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action,...whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. And it is that rule of action which is prescribed by some superior, and which the inferior is bound... | |
| William Nicholson - 1809 - 734 頁
...general and comprehensive sense, is defined by Blackstone, in the Commentaries, ' a rule of action/ and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action,...whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. And it is that rule of action which is prescribed by some superior, and which the interior is bound... | |
| John Henry Livingston - 1816 - 192 頁
...slumbering cen. tinels. •. 1 SECTION IV. LAW. is a rule of action. The term is applied generally to all kinds of action, whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus it is said, there are laws of motion, of gravitation, of attraction, of electricity, of mechanics,... | |
| Sarah Renou - 1817 - 250 頁
...Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense,' said Charles, { signifies a rule of action,, and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action,...whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. It is that rule of action which is prescribed by some superior, and which the inferior is bound to... | |
| L. Murray - 1821 - 620 頁
...Dictionary CHAP IV. LAW. LAW, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action ; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action,...whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature... | |
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