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Meaning of natural law

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natural law

noun

Definitions

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

  2. 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.

  3. Law of nature; relating to natural phenomena.