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law of nature The jus naturale. The Roman conception of a hypothetical law of a bygone state of nature or golden age, and believed to exist in part in all then existing bodies of law; to be ascertained by segregating the principles common to many or all of them, i.e. the jus gentium. The jus naturale or law of nature is simply the jus gentium or law of nations seen in the right of a particular theory-stoic philosophy (Maine).. |