higher law

同根派生

He embraces, in the name of a higher law, a cult of death.
在更高的法則的名義下，他信奉死神的祭儀。
To ask a government department to change its decision or a high law court to change a sentence.
上訴，請求政府部門改變其決定或請求高級(jí)法院改變判決。
The second chapter tells us that the American constitution has recepted the theory of "Lex,Rex"and due process of law and a theory of a higher law.
第二章討論了英國普通法傳統(tǒng)在美國憲法中的體現(xiàn)。文章指出，美國憲法直接繼承了英國普通法的法律至上學(xué)說、正當(dāng)法律程序原則以及高級(jí)法觀念。
The stern religion with which he was enraptured, its insistence upon a higher law, was there, and he heard again the precepts which had helped to bind him to his own children.
原來那時(shí)在他面前的，是使他入于出神狀態(tài)的嚴(yán)肅的宗教，以及宗教所要求的一種更高的法律，因而他又重新聽見對兒孫應(yīng)盡義務(wù)的教義了。
Constitution as the highest law of the land, the highest legal effect.
憲法作為國家的根本大法，具有最高的法律效力。