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positive laws

positive laws is the plural of positive law.

Meaning of positive law

Noun

positive law (usually uncountable, plural positive laws)

  1. (usually) Law explicitly made, as compared to natural law; law prescribed by express enactment or institution.
    • We know that generally in all commonwealths, the execution of corporal punishments, was either put upon the guards, or other soldiers of the sovereign power; or given to those, in whom want of means, contempt of honour, and hardness of heart, concurred, to make them sue for such an office. But...1651, Thomas Hobbes, The Leviathan

Questions about positive laws

What is positive laws the plural of?
Positive laws is the plural of positive law.

Words near positive laws in the dictionary

  1. positive entries
  2. positive entry
  3. positive eugenics
  4. positive feedback
  5. positive law
  6. positive laws
  7. positive linear functional
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  9. positive logic
  10. positive lookahead
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