positive law in English
noun
1
statutes that have been laid down by a legislature, court, or other human institution and which can take whatever form the authors want.
I doubt, however, that he wishes to reduce the morally obligatory and supererogatory to what is prescribed or merely allowed by human positive law in view of the contingent features of the political common good.
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1. But this restatement of positive law does not address the question of “equality of arms”