natural law
Noun
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Noun
natural law (uncountable)
- (philosophy) An ethical theory that posits the existence of a law whose content is set by nature and that therefore has validity everywhere.
- (legal) A generally accepted concept of the philosophical system of legal and moral principles purportedly deriving from a of natural or divine justice and not from a position of positive law but of ideas of right and wrong.
- Law of nature; relating to natural phenomena.
- physical law (contradistinction)
- French: droit naturel
- German: Naturgesetz
- Italian: giusnaturalismo
- Russian: есте́ственное пра́во
- Italian: giusnaturalismo
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