Affirmative Statute
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In legislation. A statute couched in atlirmative or mandatory terms; one which directs the doing of an act, or declares what shall be done; as a negative statute is one which prohibits a thing from being done, or declares what shall not be done. Blackstone describes af: firmative acts of parliament as those “ where- {n justice is directed to be done according tothe law of theland.”
1Bl. Comm. 142.