Sentence examples for positive law from inspiring English sources

Does this amount to acknowledging that natural law theory is significantly less concerned than contemporary legal positivist theories to establish the precise boundaries and content of the social-fact sourced (posited, purely positive) law of our community?

After leaving Egypt, the Jews found themselves, in Spinoza's view, in the position of people who had no allegiance to any positive law.

Private property, on the other hand, is rooted in positive law through human reason.

Much of positive law, he claimed, was derived from morality in this second way.

Widodo said "the death penalty is our positive law", in an interview with reporters on Saturday in Abepura.

Aquinas's central natural-law thesis is that valid positive law is necessarily derived from objective moral principles (or moral truths).

"Freedom Riders" implicitly and ably conveys the powerlessness of positive law in the face of a toxic cultural emotionalism.

There have been several disagreements over the meaning of natural law and its relation to positive law.

On the contrary, Holmes recognized that positive law is suffused with values; he wrote that "law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life".

Mansfield's ruling on slavery in the "Somerset case" of 1772 reads: "It is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it, but positive law".

Later the Church Fathers and the theologians of Scholasticism held that positive law is binding only if it does not conflict with the precepts of divine law.