Enactment
A law or a statute; a document which is published as an enforceable set of written rules is said to be "enacted".
Endorsement
Something written on the back of a document.
Enactment
A document which is published as an enforceable set of written rules, creating a law or statute.
Enactment of a legislative body continuing for an indefinite period of time.
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An enactment by Congress in 1965 (42 U.S.C.A. § 1973 et seq.) that prohibits the states and their political subdivisions from imposing voting qualifications or prerequisites to voting, or standards, practices, ...
All these enactments have been superseded by the Judicature Acts, but in the case of slander on women the provisions of the act of 1623 were re-enacted in the Slander of Women Act 1891.
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"In this Act and enactments passed and instruments made after the coming into force of this section, references (however expressed) to any relationship between two persons shall, unless the contrary intention appears, ...
Date of assent or Date of enactment The date when the legislative document is agreed or approved by the empowered authority (e.g. Queen, President, Ministry, etc.).
In Roman law, often synonymous with jus; also, a written law, a statute, an enactment; the law of the Twelve Tables. In old English law, a collection of laws; as, the Roman or civil law.
in law, a formal, written enactment by the authorized powers of a state. The term is usually not applied to a written constitution but is restricted to the enactments of a legislature.
propter defectum, on account of some personal objection, as alienage, infancy, old age, or the want of those qualifications required by legislative enactment. 2d.
The Clean Water Act: Growing public awareness and concern for controlling water pollution led to enactment of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972. As amended in 1977, this law became commonly known as the Clean Water Act.
enactment of the Hague Rules. Some of its key features is that a shipowner is liable for cargo damaged from "hook to hook", meaning from loading to discharge, unless it is exonerated under one of 13 exceptions to liability such as "Act of God", ...
Common law: The law developed over centuries and derived from judicial opinions rather than from legislative enactments. For example, the laws relating to negligence have been developed by judicial decisions over several hundred years.
In many jurisdictions, it has been held that the list of liquors subject to regulatory or prohibitive enactments, particularly when such a list is followed by an expression akin to "or other intoxicating liquors" must be intoxicating in fact.
: the ends sought to be achieved by a legislature in an enactment
Courts often look to legislative intent for guidance in interpreting and applying a law.
Statutory: Created by the enactment of a law, relating to a statute or law; existing as the result of a statute.
Stay: 1. A postponement; a moratorium. 2. To stop or halt, usually temporarily, a legal proceeding.
Statute: Legislative enactment; it may be a single act of a legislature or a body of acts which are collected and arranged for a session of a legislature. (See statutory law.) ...
After the fact. The Constitution prohibits the enactment of ex post facto laws. These are laws that permit conviction and punishment for a lawful act performed before the law was changed and the act made illegal.
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Bill 1) A statement of what is owed. 2) A legislative proposal for enactment of a law. 3) An old-fashioned term for various documents filed in lawsuits or criminal prosecutions.
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Regulations
Rules and enactments of an administrative agency.
Rehearing
A re-trial or reconsideration of a case or an issue by the court at the request of a party.
Term: Regulations
Definition: Rules and enactments of an administrative agency.
Term: Rehearing
Definition: A re-trial or reconsideration of a case or an issue by the court at the request of a party.
LEGISLATION
(1) The act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws; the laws enacted. (2) Law which has been enacted by legislature or other governing body.
by which the signer requires the bank to pay a third party a sum of money. This is a holdover from the days when a person would draw up a "bill of exchange." 2) a statement of what is owed. 3) any paper money. 4) a legislative proposal for enactment ...
TACIT LAW.
A law which derives its authority from the common consent of the people, without any legislative enactment. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 120. ... more ...
federal statute that describes the rights and responsibilities of cargo owners and ship operators when goods, known as cargo, are transported by sea. It is the United States enactment of the Hague Rules and as such is based on those rules but ...
CONSTABLE - An officer, generally elected by the people, who possesses power as a conservator of the peace at common law, and by virtue of various legislative enactments.
These acts also establish the procedure by which such claims are made. Before the enactment of tort claims acts, government bodies could not be sued without the specific permission of the government.
ex post facto After the fact; a statute is termed ex post facto if it purports to affect situations in existence at the time of its enactment.
caused to a child, by making or causing to make a situation or event which may attract a child consequently leading to an accident, loss or damages. Eg. Leaving a pit uncovered or unfenced.2. Carelessly leaving a harmful object. Recent enactments ...
A formal written enactment of a legislative body, whether federal, state, city, or county.
stay - n. A stopping; the act of arresting a judicial proceeding by the order of a court.
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