moral law

moral law. A collection of principles defining right and wrong conduct; a standard to which an action must conform to be right or virtuous. “It quite often happens that the moral law disapproves of something which the secular permits as a concession to human frailty.” Patrick Devlin, The Enforcement of Morals 78 (1968).

A collection of principles defining right and wrong conduct; a standard to which an action must conform to be right or virtuous.