Usage of "positive law"

Russian

позитивное право

Portuguese

direito positivo

Catalan

dret positiu

Spanish

derecho positivo

Law.

natural law

позитивное право

Usage of positive law in English

Sound philosophy and positive law are in perfect agreement on this subject. 
 Moral Principles and Medical Practice: The Basis of Medical Juri... 

The first is the positive law, and deals with sins of commission. 
 Natural Law in the Spiritual World 

There is not a line of positive law to protect the mother. 
 Women and the Alphabet: A Series of Essays 

It's so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law. 
 A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions o... 

They established property on human law, positive law, imperial law. 
 An Essay on Mediæval Economic Teaching 

What need of positive law where natural justice is, of itself, a sufficient restraint? 
 An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals 

It is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law. 
 Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 

This is simply another way of stating St. Augustine's distinction between natural and positive law. 
 An Essay on Mediæval Economic Teaching 

The principle in question is, in a certain sense, a negative rather than a positive law. 
 The Theory of the Leisure Class 

It is not positive law, it is negative. 
 The Conquest of Fear 

Will some one please tell me where is the positive law that establishes slavery in Kansas? 
 The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 2: 1843-1858 

The idea of literary property seems, in truth, to be very much a creation of positive law. 
 Latin Literature 

Any doubts upon the subject were, however, soon put at rest by the enactment of a positive law. 
 The Principles of Masonic Law / A Treatise on the Constitutional... 

Russia is an absolute monarchy, which means a government in which the will of the monarch is positive law. 
 The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 29... 

The arbitration of bishops had the force of positive law, and judges were instructed to execute the episcopal decrees. 
 Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04: Imperial Antiquity 

But the practice of burning a heretic alive was long the custom before it was adopted anywhere as positive law. 
 The Church and the Empire / Being an Outline of the History of t... 