The GENERAL CONTEXT of such use is:
arbitrary:
1. not governed by principle; depending on volition; based on one's preference, notion, whim, or interest.
2. capricious
3. tyrannical; despotic

"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."
George Washington

4. In Law, left to the description or judgement of the court; not fixed; not determined by statute; as in arbitrary fines.
SYN. - tyrannical, imperious, unlimited, capricious, absolute, positive, despotic, peremptory, tyrannous.
(Question: Can Positivity, by itself alone, be arbitrary and tyrannical?)