English Explanatory Dictionary

positive law

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Law explicitly made, as compared to natural law; law prescribed by express enactment or institution.

Word forms

positive law positive laws

Etymology

1651: From Thomas Hobbes, The Leviathan

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