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PRESENTED BY
Y.ROBERT.IAS
SYNOPSIS:
INTRODUCTION
CHARACTERISTICS OF
NATURAL LAW
ROMAN PERIOD
CHRISTIAN PERIOD
MEDIEVAL PERIOD
CONCLUSION
WHAT IS NATURAL
LAW
• The term natural law is derived from the Roman term jus naturale
which means a system of law based on fundamental ideas of right
and wrong. Adherents to natural law philosophy are known as
naturalists.
• It is the unwritten body of universal moral principles that underlie
the ethical and legal norms by which human conduct is sometimes
evaluated and governed. Natural law is often contrasted with
positive law, which consists of the written rules and regulations
enacted by government.
• In legal theory and in ancient Hindu, Greek and Roman Law
natural law has a primitive place.
• Indeed Natural law theory has a history where no other
space of legal and political theory is so bejeweled with
stars as that of natural law, which scintillates with
contribution from all ages.