natural law
The permanent underlying basis of all law. The philosophers of ancient Greece, where the idea of natural law originated, considered that there was a kind of perfect justice given to man by nature and that man’s laws should conform to this as closely as possible. Theories of natural law have been an important part of jurisprudence throughout legal history. Natural law is distinguished from positive law, which is the body of law imposed by the state. Natural law is both anterior and superior to positive law.

• Judge Advocate-General’s Department
• judge in his own cause
• judgment
• judgment creditor
• judgment debtor
• judgment in default
• Judgments Regulation
• judgment summons
• Judicature Acts
• judicial cognizance
• judicial comity
• Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
• judicial deference
• judicial dictum
• judicial discretion
• judicial immunity
• judicial notice
• judicial precedent
• judicial review
• judicial separation order
• judicial trustee
• jump bail
• junior barrister
• jure gestionis
• jure imperii