 | John Austin - Jurisprudence - 1832 - 512 pages
...conduct of sovereigns considered as related to one another. And hence it inevitably follows, that the law obtaining between nations is not positive law : for every positive law is set, by a given sovereign to a person or persons in a state of subjection to its author. As I have... | |
 | Law - 1832 - 536 pages
...body is sovereign or supreme. Or (changing the phrase) it is set by a monarch, or sovereign number, to a person or persons in a state of subjection to its author. " To elucidate the nature of sovereignty, and of the independent political society that sovereignty... | |
 | Great Britain - 1832 - 496 pages
...body is sovereign or supreme. Or (changing the expression) it is set by a monarch or sovereign number to a person or persons in a state of subjection to its author." The term positive, that is, existing by position, he has adopted, as serving more commodiously... | |
 | Henry Wheaton - International law - 1836 - 410 pages
...opinions current in the fashionable world, and enforced by appropriate sanctions. Such also are the laws which regulate the conduct of independent political...person or persons in a state of subjection to its author. The rule regarding the conduct of sovereign states, considered as related to each other, is... | |
 | Henry Wheaton - International law - 1836 - 420 pages
...opinions current in the fashionable world, and enforced by appropriate sanctions. Such also are the laws which regulate the conduct of independent political...prescribed by a given superior or sovereign to a person or |>ersons in a state of subjection to its author. The rule regarding the conduct of sovereign states,... | |
 | Henry Wheaton - International law - 1836 - 660 pages
...current in the fashionable world, " and enforced by appropriate sanctions. " Such also are the laws which regulate the " conduct of independent political...is not " positive law ; for every positive law is pre" scribed by a given superior or sovereign to " a person or persons in a state of subjection " to... | |
 | Law - 1861 - 430 pages
...is sovereign or supreme. Or, changing the expression, it is set by a monarch, or sovereign number, to a person or persons in a state of subjection to its author. Even though it sprang directly from another fountain or source, it is a positive law, or a... | |
 | Law - 1862 - 422 pages
...logical data, might have shown him to be inappropriate. Mr. Austin considers "that the law of nations obtaining between nations is not positive law, for every positive law is eet by a given sovereign to a person or persons in a state of subjection to its author." * He further... | |
 | American essays - 1889 - 876 pages
...person or body is sovereign or supreme. In other words, it is set by a monarch or sovereign number to a person or persons in a state of subjection to its author." " It follows that the power of a monarch, properly so called, or the power of a sovereign... | |
 | Travers Twiss - International law - 1861 - 414 pages
...Nathat they are not prescribed by any superior Power. Thus Mr. Austin says,41 "that the Law of Nations obtaining between Nations is not Positive Law, for every Positive Law is set by a given Sovereign to a person or persons in a state of subjection to its author." He observes... | |
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... set by a sovereign person, or a sovereign body of persons, to a member or members of the independent political society wherein that person or body is sovereign or supreme. Or (changing the expression) it is set by a monarch, or sovereign number, to... 
