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

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. See Municipal law, under Law.

Etymologies

  1. 1651: From Thomas Hobbes, The Leviathan (Wiktionary)

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  • “But I venture to say that there is not a parent from the Giant's Causeway to Bantry Bay, who does not conceive that his child is the unfortunate victim of the exclusion, and that nothing short of positive law could prevent his own dear, pre-eminent”

    Sydney Smith

  • “Hitherto we have prescinded from positive law in our treatment of the question of gambling.”

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI

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  1. common law
  1. natural law
  1. divine law

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  1. statute
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  3. break
  1. law
  2. offender
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  2. Photostat
  3. positive
  1. prescription
  2. moral sense
  3. thetical
  1. violation
  2. guilt
  3. theorem
  1. violate

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