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Definition of Enacting
1. enact [v] - See also: enact
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enacting
Literary usage of Enacting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1900)
"If an enacting clause is useful and important, if it is desirable that laws shall
bear upon their face the authority by which they are enacted, ..."
2. Lex Parliamentaria Americana: Elements of the Law and Practice of by Luther Stearns Cushing (1874)
"For the purposes of amendment, the preamble is considered as a part of the bill
to which it is attached. SECTION III. STATEMENT OF THE enacting AUTHORITY. ..."
3. The Constitution of Canada by Joseph Edwin Crawford Munro (1889)
"enacting Clause. enacting The enacting clause of a statute varies in the different
Clause. . provinces. In Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, and British Co- 1 OBS ..."
4. God Against Slavery: And the Freedom and Duty of the Pulpit to Rebuke It, as by George Barrell Cheever (1857)
"COMPULSION BY THE GOVERNMENT, enacting WICKED LAWS TO ERIVE THE PEOPLE INTO SIN;
... 2, the princes removing the bound, and enacting that those who ..."
5. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1898)
"Ordaining council, and the enacting power of the king in parliament. power of
the king in swered and indorsed before the commons in parliament, ..."
6. English Local Government of To-day: A Study of the Relations of Central and by Milo Roy Maltbie (1897)
"What, we may pause to ask, were the faults of the systems of enacting local bills,
... I say system of enacting local bills, for the English in their ..."
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