Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

natural liberty

The power to act as one wishes, without any restraint or control, unless by nature."This natural liberty being a right inherent in us by birth .. . . But every man, when he enters into society, gives up a part of his natural liberty, as the price of so valuable a purchase; and, in consideration of receiving the advantages of mutual commerce, obliges himself to conform to those laws, which the community has thought proper to establish." 1 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 121 (1765).