moral law

moral law
The law, in a very broad sense of the term "law," of conscience. Judge Dillon, in his Commentary on the Laws and Jurisprudence of England and America, says: "Not less wondrous than the revelations of the starry heavens, and much more important, and to no class of men more so than lawyers, is the moral law which Kant found within himself, and which is likewise found within, and is consciously recognized by, every man. This moral law holds its dominion by divine ordination over us all, from which escape or evasion is impossible. This moral law is the eternal and indestructible sense of justice and of right written by God on the living tablets of the human heart and revealed in his Holy Word." Moore v Strickling, 46 W Va 515, 33 SE 274.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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