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Definition of Enabling
1. Adjective. Providing legal power or sanction. "Enabling power"
Definition of Enabling
1. Verb. (present participle of enable) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Enabling
1. enable [v] - See also: enable
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enabling
Literary usage of Enabling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1907)
"THE SAN DOMINICAN enabling ACT. The National Congress of the Dominican Republic
... This enabling act supersedes the conditional financial engagements ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"The former statutes are called the restraining, the latter the enabling statute.
... And first the enabling statute, 32 Hen. VIII, c. ..."
3. The Constitutional Convention: Its History, Powers, and Modes of Proceeding by John Alexander Jameson (1867)
"Such as have been convened by the inhabitants, or the temporary governments of
organized Territories, irregularly, without enabling Acts of Congress. ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"Five days prior thereto, to wit, February 26, 1857, Congress passed an enabling
Act for the proposed State (11 Stat. 166), which designated the western ..."
5. The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Francis N. Thorpe, United States (1909)
"Accepting enabling act. I hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance accepting
the terms and conditions of the enabling act as the same has heretofore been ..."
6. Cyclopedia of American Government by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart (1914)
"The enabling Act.—This act, signed by President Roosevelt June 14, 1906, ...
This clause of the enabling Act hud a significant In addition to the usual ..."
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