Word Meanings - LAWGIVING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Enacting laws; legislative.

Related words: (words related to LAWGIVING)

• ENACTMENT
  1. 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. 2. That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as,
• ENACTURE
  Enactment; resolution. Shak.
• LEGISLATIVE
  1. Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking; -- distinguished from executive; as, a legislative act; a legislative body. The supreme legislative power of England was lodged in the king and great council, or what was afterwards
• ENACTOR
  One who enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law. Atterbury.
• ENACTIVE
  Having power to enact or establish as a law. Abp. Bramhall.
• LEGISLATIVELY
  In a legislative manner.
• ENACT
  1. To decree; to establish by legal and authoritative act; to make into a law; especially, to perform the legislative act with reference to which gives it the validity of law. 2. To act; to perform; to do; to effect. The king enacts more wonders
• REENACT
  To enact again.
• REENACTION
  The act of re
• REENACTMENT
  The enacting or passing of a law a second time; the renewal of a law.