higher law

1. 1.

   a principle that takes precedent over the laws of society

   Broaderprinciple

Questions about higher law

What does higher law mean?

higher law means "a principle that takes precedent over the laws of society".

Is higher law a common word?

higher law is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.