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  • Enactment

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Enactment Meaning of Enactment The process of bringing a statute into law. Synonyms of Enactment noun act bill charter codification […]

  • Veto

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

  • Marine Insurance

    Marine Insurance

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Marine Insurance Meaning of Marine Insurance An insurance against marine losses, that is, the losses incident to marine adventure. An insurance against risks connected with navigation to which a ship, […]

  • Repeal

    Annulling or the abrogation or the revocation of a statute by the enactment of a subsequent statute which latter one expressly declares that the former one is repealed. Repeal may be express or by implication . A prior statute is said to be repealed by implication if its […]

  • Plebiscite

    Plebiscite

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Plebiscite Meaning of Plebiscite The process by which the entire body of enfranchised individuals in a nation express their choice for or against a particular proposed law or enactment , which, if […]

  • Legislation

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Legislation Meaning of Legislation The act of making laws and passing enactments by a legislative body. Enactments or acts of Congress or enactments of various state legislatures. <div […]

  • Legislation

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Legislation Meaning of Legislation The act of making laws and passing enactments by a legislative body. Enactments or acts of Congress or enactments of various state legislatures. <div […]

  • Provision

    A clause in a legal document. Any right of patronage exerted by the Pope. In English law, a name given to certain statutes or acts of parliament such as Provisions of Oxford (1258), Provisions of westminster (1259). The term provision was the word used originally to designate an […]

  • Constitution

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Constitution Meaning of Constitution The established form of government in a state , kingdom or country; a system of fundamental rule, principles and ordinances for the government of a state or nation , […]

  • Regulation

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Regulation Meaning of Regulation A subordinate legislation enacted under statutory authority by a governmental body. A rule or order having force of law issued by executive authority of government . See […]

  • Common Law

    Common law in Law Enforcement Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of common law. Grammar This term is a noun. Etimology of Common Law (You may find common law at the world legal encyclopedia and the […]

  • Age of majority

    The chronological age at which a person ceases to be a minor, and, subject to whatever legal disabilities minority carries with it (e.g., inability to vote, to drink intoxicating liquors, to drive on the public highways, to make valid contracts, conveyances and wills) while […]

  • Ordinance

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Ordinance Meaning of Ordinance A subordinate legislation promulgated with the authority of a properly established body of the government , such as a city or town. See Skalnik v Town of Sperry, (Okl.App.) […]

  • Fiat

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Fiat Meaning of Fiat A decree ; an authority issuing from some competent source for the doing of some legal act. The word in Latin means let it be done and in English law refers to a short order or […]

  • Fiat

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Fiat Meaning of Fiat A decree ; an authority issuing from some competent source for the doing of some legal act. The word in Latin means let it be done and in English law refers to a short order or […]