Sentence examples for positive laws from inspiring English sources

But he doesn't want to say that they are merely positive laws, like any other enactments.

Muhammad Rum, a spokesman for the attorney general, earlier said the executions were the "implementation of our positive laws" and would not be delayed.

The positive laws instituted by the wise take into account the particular nature of the people for whose benefit they are instituted, as well as other circumstances.

In his magnum opus, Leviathan (1651), he wrote that "law in general, is not counsel, but command" and that civil (i.e., positive) laws are "those rules which the common-wealth hath commanded…by word, writing, or other sufficient sign of the will" that certain actions are to be done or not done.

(DJN VII.4.8, 4.11) Despite its natural law foundation, a state's positive laws will only partially overlap with natural law.

For Bodin a sovereign is "not bound" (absolutus) by the civil or positive laws which he or his predecessors had promulgated.

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.