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positive laws
n. (plural of positive law English)
Usage examples of "positive laws".
But after that the father and son are equally free, as much as tutor and pupil, after nonage, equally subjects of the same law together, without any dominion left in the father over the life, liberty, or estate of his son, whether they be only in the state and under the law of Nature, or under the positive laws of an established government.
Their speculative opinions were imposed as positive laws, and guarded by the terrors of eternal punishments.
In the progress from primitive equity to final injustice, the steps are silent, the shades are almost imperceptible, and the absolute monopoly is guarded by positive laws and artificial reason.