Legal Definition and Related Resources of Enable

To make able; to give means or power to. A provision in a statute is said to be an enabling provision when: 1. it legalizes that which was hitherto illegal or incompetent ; or 2. when it merely empowers or makes possible the doing of something, confers a Discretionary power as contrasted with a mandatory or peremptory direction.

verb

• abet
• aid
• allow
• approve
• arm
• assist
• authorize
• capacitate
• confer
• consent
• emancipate
• empower
• endow
• facilitate
• facultatem
• facere
• give ability
• give authority
• give means
• give permission
• give power
• grant
• help
• homini rei
• implement
• indulge
• invest
• let
• liberate
• license
• make able
• make capable
• make possible
• make practicable
• permit
• privilege
• provide
• provide means
• qualify
• release
• remove a disability
• render assistance
• render competent
• sanction
• strengthen
• supply with means
• support Associated Concepts: enabling act
• enabling legislation
• enabling statute

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