That leaves as the subject matter of legal science only positive law.

Such rights were thought to be natural rights, independent of positive law.

"Positive law, on the other hand, is a decision made based upon the prescriptions.

Among other things he attempted in this to clearly separate moral rules from "positive law."

This period was marked by further development of the positive law and judicial independence.

Though authorized by statute, these changes do not constitute positive law.

Positive law and economics uses economic analysis to predict the effects of various legal rules.

This can be seen in discussions of natural law and positive law.

Related is the idea of prescription; a right enjoyed through long custom rather than positive law.

For no positive law whatsoever can oblige any people but those to whom it is given.

But he doesn't want to say that they are merely positive laws, like any other enactments.

Austin believed that positive law was the appropriate focus of study for jurisprudence.

Includes Appendix of provisions not yet enacted into positive law.

Such ideas as natural rights belong to the metaphysical age and progress is to be found in positive laws.

In his view, Western positive law systems reduce people to human resources, artificial persons with merely legal status.

Positive law regards law from the position of its legitimacy.

However, saying "Blair is a war criminal" is, simply as a matter of positive law, wrong.

Thus the first qadis in effect laid the foundations of Islamic positive law.

The first is mainly devoted to the distinction between natural law and positive law.

If special accommodations for the disabled are to be required, they have to come from positive law and not through the equal protection clause.

The contemporary argument as to the relationship of human rights to positive law is a modern extension of this.

Titles that have been enacted into positive law are indicated by blue shading below.

In legal theory, on the other hand, the interpretation of positive law requires some reference to natural law.

The work deals with justice and positive law from Thomas Aquinas' point of view.

Hostiensis believed that while the pope should follow positive law he was not bound by it.