Positive law
Legal rules enacted by people in a political community. Positive law includes constitutions, statutes, and regulations.
See Moral law and Natural law.
Definition from Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary
Statutory man-made law, as compared to natural law, that is purportedly based on universally accepted moral principles or derived from nature and reason.
Definition provided by Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary.
August 19, 2010, 5:21 pm
