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Definition of Natural law

1. Noun. A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society.

Definition of Natural law

1. Noun. (philosophy) An ethical theory that posits the existence of a law whose content is set by nature and that therefore has validity everywhere. ¹

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Literary usage of Natural law

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"natural law might be said to be the law dictated by conscience, ... So natural law covers a man's duty to God, or Nature — the duties of man toward himself, ..."

2. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton (1904)
"As independent communities acknowledge no common natural law superior, they may be considered as living in a state of intercourse nature with respect to ..."

3. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"Both notions are avowedly based on the ground, that, since man is a social animal, promises are binding by natural law. They both alike start from the ..."

4. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"Both notions are avowedly based on the ground, that, since man is a social animal, promises are binding by natural law. They both alike start from the ..."

5. Outlines of Roman Law: Comprising Its Historical Growth and General Principles by William Carey Morey (1914)
"When the law is considered in the broad ethical sense just indicated, it is called natural law. or th,e few which the natural reason has cons^uled, ..."

6. The World's Legal Philosophies by Fritz Berolzheimer (1912)
"Demarcation of the Philosophy of Law from natural law, ... The supporters of this position assume a natural law independent of statutory law -— at times ..."

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