Legal Definition and Related Resources of Enactment

The process of bringing a statute into law.

noun

• act
• bill
• charter
• codification
• decree
• dictate
• edict
• establishment
• fiat
• law
• legislation
• lex
• measure
• ordinance
• plebiscitum
• regulation
• rule
• ruling
• sandio
• statute
• statutory lawforeign phrases: Leges suum ligent latorem
• Laws should bind their own proposer
• Jus constituíoportet in his quae ut plurimum accidunt non quae ex inopi nato
• Laws ought to be made with a view to those cases which occur most frequently
• and not to those which are of rare or accidental occurrence
• Leges figendi et refigendi consuetudo estpericulosissima
• The practice of making and remaking the laws is a most dangerous one
• Quod populus postremum jussit
• id jus ratum esto
• What the people have last enacted
• let that be the settled law

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Enactment in Historical Law

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Enactment in Law Enforcement

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

Grammar

This term is a noun.

Etimology of Enactment

(You may find enactment at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms).

1766, “passing of a bill into law,” from enact + -ment. Meaning “a law, statute” is by 1783. Earlier was enaction 1620s.

Resources

See Also

• Law Enforcement Officer
• Policeman
• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

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

English Legal System: Enactment

In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Enactment :

An Act of Parliament, a Measure of the General Synod (See Church of England), an order, or any other piece of subordinate legislation, or any particular provision contained in any of these (e.g. a particular section or article). Delegated legislation is not an enactment for the purposes of the Local Government Act 1992.