COURTHOUSE INFORMATION. The Humphreys County Courthouse was erected in Belzoni, MS in 1921. Humphreys County is located in the Mississippi Delta Region its county seat is Belzoni. The county is named for Benjamin G. Humphreys. The courthouse has served the citizens of Humphreys County since 1921 and is still operational to present date.
Natural Law. The term natural law is ambiguous. It refers to a type of moral theory, as well as to a type of legal theory, but the core claims of the two kinds of theory are logically independent. It does not refer to the laws of nature, the laws that science aims to describe.
Thomas Aquinas and Natural Law Theory. Natural law theory like legal positivism has appeared in a variety of forms and in many. guises. One of the most elaborate statements of natural law theory can be found in. Aquinas who distinguished four types of law: eternal, divine, natural, and man-made. So, according to Aquinas, eternal law reflected God's grand design for the whole shebang. Divine law was that set of principles revealed by Scripture, and natural law was eternal. law as it applied to human conduct.