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State law
The kind of law, however, which particularly concerns us in this work is the state law or the law
that promulgated and enforced by the state.
(1) Other terms used - This law is also called positive law, municipal law, civil law, or
imperative law. It is the law that we refer to when we speak of law in connection with
obligations and contracts, marriage, the administration of justice, the conduct of
elections, and the entire governmental process itself.
(2) Binding force - As a rule of action, only state law is enforced by the state, with the aid
of its physical force, if necessary.
(3) Concern law – The fields of state law are different from those of divine law, natural
law and moral law. State law does not concern itself with violations of the latter rules
of action unless they also constitute violations of its commands. A full examination of
divine law properly belongs to the fields of philosophical theology; of natural law, to
metaphysics; of moral law, to ethics; and of physical law, to physical science or physics.
(M.J. Gamboa, op. cit.,
Leaving aside these topics, we proceed now with the consideration of state law.