Legal Definition and Related Resources of Veto

The right of forbidding or denying without assigning any reasons therefor.

(Lat. I forbid). A term Including the refusal of the executive officer whose assent is necessary to perfect a law which has been passed by the legislative body, and the message which is usually sent, stating such refusal, and the reasons therefor. By the constitution of the United States government, the president has a power to prevent the enactment of any law, by refusing to sign the same after its passage, unless it be subsequently enacted by a vote of two-thirds of each house. Const. U. S. art. 1, § 7. When a bill is engrossed, and has received the sanction of both houses, it is transmitted to the president for his approbation. If he approves of it, he signs it. If he does not, he sends it, with his objections, to the house in which it originated, and that house enter the objections on their journal, and proceed to reconsider the bill. See Story, Const. § 878; 1 Kent, Comm. 239. Similar powers are possessed by the governors of many of the states. The veto power of the British sovereign has not been exercised for more than a century. It was exercised once during the reign of Queen Anne. 10 Edinb. Rev. 411; Parke. Leet. 126. But anciently the king frequently replied, Le roy s’avisera, which was in effect withholding his assent. In France the king had the initiative of all laws, but not the veto. See 1 TouUier, Dr. Civ. nn. 39, 42, 52, note 3.

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Veto in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of veto.

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• Police
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• veto in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• veto in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis

Veto in Voting Law

Definition of Veto in the context of the United States election law: Recognised right of an authority to oppose a decision taken by another authority, even by a majority. In certain political systems (for example a presidential system), the head of state can refuse the enactment of a law approved by the legislative assembly and prevent its entry into force.

Veto in Voting Law

Definition of Veto in the context of the United States election law: Recognised right of an authority to oppose a decision taken by another authority, even by a majority. In certain political systems (for example a presidential system), the head of state can refuse the enactment of a law approved by the legislative assembly and prevent its entry into force.

Concept of “Veto”

Traditional meaning of veto in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) I forbid.

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1. Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Veto”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.

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