Positive Law Definition

noun
A body of laws or principles guiding human conduct established by human authority, often contrasted with natural law.
American Heritage
The body of laws that have been enacted in a particular community and that are upheld by the courts of that community, as distinct from natural law.
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Other Word Forms of Positive Law

Noun

Singular:
positive law
Plural:
positive-laws

Origin of Positive Law

  • From positive explicitly laid down, established by human authority

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • 1651: From Thomas Hobbes, The Leviathan

    From Wiktionary

Positive Law Sentence Examples

  • But Vico maintained that the one was continually progressing towards the other, positive law showing an increasing tendency to draw nearer to natural and rational law.

  • But we see no sign of the growth of a body made up of patricians and leading plebeians who contrived to keep office to themselves by a social tradition only less strong than positive law.

  • Hence it was regarded as a universal positive law of God.

  • The first point to be noticed is the new conception of morality as the positive law of a theocratic community possessing a Christian written code imposed by divine revelation, and and Jewish sanctioned by divine promises and threatenings.

  • Its theoretical basis is the principle of egoism; while, for practically determining the particulars of duty it makes morality entirely dependent on positive law and institution.

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