Positive law
Positive law (Latin: lex posita) is the term generally used to describe man-made laws which bestow specific privileges upon, or remove them from, an individual or group.
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Quotes
[edit]- Positive laws deriving their force from the law of nature, by which we are directed to make occasional rules, which we call laws, according to the exigencies of times, places, and persons, grow obsolete, or cease to be, as soon as they cease to be necessary.
- John Trenchard & Thomas Gordon (August 26, 1721). Cato's Letter No. 42, Considerations on the Nature of Laws.
- The matter of jurisprudence is positive law: law, simply and strictly so called : or law set by political superiors to political inferiors.
- John Austin, The Province of Jurisprudence Determined, 1832. p. 1; opening line
- Every positive law, or every law simply and strictly so called, is set, directly or circuitously, by a sovereign person or body, to a member or members of the independent political society wherein that person or body is supreme.
- John Austin, The Province of Jurisprudence Determined, 1832. p. 136-137
