Legislation

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  • noun. The act or process of legislating; lawmaking.
  • noun. A proposed or enacted law or group of laws.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The enacting of laws or statutes; the exercise of the power of legislating; the business of a legislator or a legislature.
  • noun. The product of legislative action; a law or the laws promulgated by a legislator or a legislature; a statute, or a body of statutory law: as, the legislation of Moses is contained in the Pentateuch.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws; the laws enacted.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws; the laws enacted.
  • noun. Law which has been enacted by legislature or other governing body
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. law enacted by a legislative body
  • noun. the act of making or enacting laws
  • Word Usage
    "The intention in the final constitution should be to introduce a framework whereby the judicial determination of the pre-eminence of national legislation is replaced by the requirement that the provinces themselves through the Senate conclusively establish the desirability of the relevant national legislation*."
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    act  authorization  bill  bylaw  canon