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Natural Law

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Noun

1. law, natural law

a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Natural Law

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noun
1. 
an ethical belief or system of beliefs supposed to be inherent in human nature and discoverable by reason rather than revelation
2. 
a nonlogically necessary truth; law of nature
See also nomological (sense 2)
3. 
the philosophical doctrine that the authority of the legal system or of certain laws derives from their justifiability by reason, and indeed that a legal system which cannot be so justified has no authority

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Natural Law

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1. 
rules of conduct supposedly inherent in the relations between human beings and discoverable by reason; law based upon man's innate moral sense
2. 
a law of nature
see also law (sense 8) law (sense 8a)
3. 
the laws of nature, collectively

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Natural Law

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n.
A body of moral and ethical principles that are considered to be inherent in nature itself or deducible through reason alone, often contrasted with positive law.

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