Excerpt from The Student's Guide to Stephen's New Commentaries on the Laws of England, Vol. 1 of 3 What is Jaw and what are the various kinds? Law is a rule of action prescribed by a superior to an inferior power. It may be divided: (1) into the Law of Nature; (2) the Revealed or Divine Law; (3) the Law of Nations; and (4) the Municipal Law. What is the Jaw of nature? It is the will of Our Maker, prescribed by him, and discoverable by the faculty of reasoning. What is the Divine or revealed Jaw? It is also the Law of Nature discovered by direct revelation. What is the Jaw of nations? That which regulates the conduct and mutual intercourse of independent states with each other by reason and natural justice, principally now embodied in mutual compacts. What is the municipal or civil law? "A rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.