Definition of enact

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Enact (n.) Purpose; determination.

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Nomothetical :: Nomothetical (a.) Legislative; enacting laws; as, a nomothetical power..
Enacture :: Enacture (n.) Enactment; resolution.
Institution :: Institution (n.) Established order, method, or custom; enactment; ordinance; permanent form of law or polity..
Enactment :: Enactment (n.) The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law.
Staunch :: Statutory (a.) Enacted by statute; depending on statute for its authority; as, a statutory provision..
Veto :: Veto (n.) A power or right possessed by one department of government to forbid or prohibit the carrying out of projects attempted by another department; especially, in a constitutional government, a power vested in the chief executive to prevent the enactment of measures passed by the legislature. Such a power may be absolute, as in the case of the Tribunes of the People in ancient Rome, or limited, as in the case of the President of the United States. Called also the veto power..
Legislate :: Legislate (v. i.) To make or enact a law or laws.
Constitutive :: Constitutive (a.) Having power to enact, establish, or create; instituting; determining..
Plebiscitum :: Plebiscitum (n.) A law enacted by the common people, under the superintendence of a tribune or some subordinate plebeian magistrate, without the intervention of the senate..
Enact :: Enact (v. t.) To decree; to establish by legal and authoritative act; to make into a law; especially, to perform the legislative act with reference to (a bill) which gives it the validity of law..
Enact :: Enact (v. t.) To act; to perform; to do; to effect.
Dysnomy :: Dysnomy (n.) Bad legislation; the enactment of bad laws.
Lawgiving :: Lawgiving (a.) Enacting laws; legislative.
Canon :: Canon (n.) A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority..
Parliamentary :: Parliamentary (a.) Enacted or done by Parliament; as, a parliamentary act..
Constitute :: Constitute (v. t.) To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.
Legislation :: Legislation (n.) The act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws; the laws enacted.
Obrogate :: Obrogate (v. t.) To annul indirectly by enacting a new and contrary law, instead of by expressly abrogating or repealing the old one..
Parliament :: Parliament (n.) The assembly of the three estates of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, viz., the lords spiritual, lords temporal, and the representatives of the commons, sitting in the House of Lords and the House of Commons, constituting the legislature, when summoned by the royal authority to consult on the affairs of the nation, and to enact and repeal laws..
Penal :: Penal (a.) Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code..
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