Positive Law legal definition of Positive Law. Positive Law synonyms by the Free Online Law Dictionary.

Those laws that have been duly enacted by a properly instituted and popularly recognized branch of government.

Positive laws may be promulgated, passed, adopted, or otherwise "posited" by an official or entity vested with authority by the government to prescribe the rules and regulations for a particular community. In the United States, positive laws come in a variety of forms at both the state and federal levels, including legislative enactments, judicial orders, executive decrees, and administrative regulations. In short, a positive law is any express written command of the government. The belief that the only legitimate sources of law are those written rules and regulations laid down by the government is known as Positivism.

positive law n. statutory man-made law, as compared to "natural law" which is purportedly based on universally accepted moral principles, "God's law," and/or derived from nature and reason. The term "positive law," was first used by Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan (1651). (See: natural law)

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By reducing it to prescriptions, to a positive law with rules, he also refuses the event of revelation, and he does so contrary to Jesus, who, like Moses, is faithful to that revelation: "I come not to oppose the Law but to fulfill it" (Matt. Revelation and revolution by Schwartz, Regina M. / Cross Currents Consequently, he does not understand the positive law as the outcome of majoritarianism--indeed, in this third edition of a text that first appeared in 1980, he is scathing about the majoritarian forms introduced into British politics by Prime Minister Tony Blair. Suggestions of brilliance by McAleer, Graham / Modern Age If there's anything that we can be disappointed in in the law, it is that we didn't quite appreciate how this positive law and this positive intent to help all children learn can be perceived by some as a negative situation. Open season: for two years, No Child Left Behind has ruled K-12 ... by D'Orio, Wayne / District Administration More results

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By reducing it to prescriptions, to a positive law with rules, he also refuses the event of revelation, and he does so contrary to Jesus, who, like Moses, is faithful to that revelation: "I come not to oppose the Law but to fulfill it" (Matt.

Revelation and revolution by Schwartz, Regina M. / Cross Currents

Consequently, he does not understand the positive law as the outcome of majoritarianism--indeed, in this third edition of a text that first appeared in 1980, he is scathing about the majoritarian forms introduced into British politics by Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Suggestions of brilliance by McAleer, Graham / Modern Age

If there's anything that we can be disappointed in in the law, it is that we didn't quite appreciate how this positive law and this positive intent to help all children learn can be perceived by some as a negative situation.

Open season: for two years, No Child Left Behind has ruled K-12 ... by D'Orio, Wayne / District Administration

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